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Collecting for the Future: Recent Additions to the Winterthur Collection

Collecting Strategies

This exhibition features an eclectic selection of recent additions to the Winterthur collection, examined through the lenses of four museum collecting policies that motivated the acquisition of these items. “Tools for Teaching” features diverse items that aid Winterthur educational mission. “The Stuff of Global Life” examines objects forged through global exchange. “Representing America’s Diversity” highlights objects made by free African Americans. “Reinvention and Reuse” investigates the layered history of “altered” objects.




  • Tools for Teaching



  • The Stuff of Global Life



  • Representing America’s Diversity

Curated by Nalleli Guillen during her tenure as the Sewell C. Biggs Curatorial Fellow,Collecting for the Future: Recent Additions to the Winterthur Collection was on view in the Winterthur galleries May 6, 2017 through May 5, 2018. The exhibition highlighted a variety of recently acquired objects and their contribution to the Winterthur collection.

 

 

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