curator + artist
Georgia Haseldine
Dr Georgia Haseldine is Senior Curator of the V&A East Storehouse, a radically reinvented collections store that offers visitors unprecedented access to the V&A’s collection of art, design and performance. A public engagement specialist, her practice deploys making and research as tools to open up museum collections and forge new communities. She holds a doctorate in the art of protest and a post-doc in clay and its (artistic + industrial) histories.
V&A East Storehouse
The Storehouse is the first of its kind - a museum store which is freely accessible to the public. Behind the Storehouse is the principle that everyone has an equal right to see, to touch the objects in our store, not just those with a professional interest. The V&A is a public museum after all, funded by the taxpayer.
"This is what the museum of the future looks like – an old idea that’s now been turned inside out, upside down, disgorging its secrets, good and bad, in an avalanche of beautiful questions, created with curiosity, generous imagination and love."
Five of my Storehouse highlights I shared with Country Life
“The whole of the curatorial vision is underpinned with this idea that you as a visitor will be able to explore, make connections, enjoy things within our collection that might be unanticipated, things you wouldn't know were here, but also that you can then access them. You can become a researcher yourself and come see them in our studios.”
from my interview with the Associated Press
