Draft:Matthew Morgan (museum director)
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Comment: I have searched your references for even mentions of Morgan and found very few. They must be about Morgan, not about other things, however interesting they may be 🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦 09:35, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
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Matthew Morgan (born London) is an art museum director. Since January 2022 he has been Museum Director of Turner's House in Twickenham.[1]
Education
[edit]Matthew Morgan studied history at the University of Cambridge. He studied history of art at the Courtauld Institute and received his PhD from Birkbeck, University of London.[2]
Career
[edit]Morgan worked at until 2008 at Christie's where he was a Director in the Valuations Department. In 2012 he became an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.[3]
He has worked at the National Gallery as Adult Learning Officer, where he made a series of filmed lectures[4][5][6] and at the Royal Collection.[7] At the Royal Collection he organised the first escape game at Buckingham Palace.[8]
During his time as Museum Director, Turner's House's has hosted two acclaimed exhibitions, Between the Sheets: Turner's Nudes, curated by Franny Moyle and Jacqueline Riding,[9] and Seeing the Light: Turner's Discovery of Italy, curated by Carly Collier.[10]
He has appeared in the documentary Decoding Turner and on the podcast Artsing About With Georgie Turner and Sophie Doyle.
References
[edit]- ^ "Magazine | The Turner Society". www.turnersociety.com. 2022-12-03. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- ^ Morgan, Matthew (October 2021). Mediating art and experience: art museums in Las Vegas (phd thesis). Birkbeck, University of London.
- ^ "Dr Matthew Morgan — Birkbeck, University of London". www.bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
- ^ "Joseph Wright 'of Derby' | An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump | NG725 | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
- ^ "George Stubbs | Whistlejacket | NG6569 | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
- ^ "Joseph Mallord William Turner | The Fighting Temeraire | NG524 | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
- ^ "Matthew Morgan, Museum Director | Art UK". artuk.org. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
- ^ Furness, Hannah (2019-06-15). "Royal Collection joins escape room craze as it opens Queen's Gallery Leonardo da Vinci exhibition to players". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
- ^ Brown, Mark (2022-07-03). "JMW Turner and sex: exhibition offers insight into private life of artist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
- ^ "Seeing the light: j.m.w. turner - 1 Sep 2023 - Artists & Illustrators Magazine - Readly". gb.readly.com. Retrieved 2023-12-01.