5 March

Opening lecture: The Museum: today and tomorrow

Philippe de Montebello

Director Emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Fiske Kimball. Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

23 April

Connoisseurship and Art History in Museums*

Michel Laclotte

Director of the Musée du Louvre, Paris (1987-1995)

21 May

The Museum and the new Technologies*

Maxwell L. Anderson

Director of the Indianapolis Museum

11 June

“This museum will be like a book, with its pages permanently open”:

Henry Cole and the creation of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the first museum to focus on public accessibility and education*

Mark Jones

Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

18 June

The Role of the Museum Curator*

Keith Christiansen

Jayne Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

17 September

The Museum and Exhibitions*

Thomas P. Campbell

Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

8 October

Lecture-debate, Museums: where to now?

Philippe de Montebello and Miguel Zugaza

Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado

*With simultaneous translation

Conferences take place in the Auditorium of the Museo Nacional del Prado. Limited numbers.