11/02/2022 with Dr. Henrietta Lidchi

Nativescape interviews the new Director of the Wheelwright Museum, Dr. Henrietta Lidchi. Listen to Dr. Lidchi discuss collecting, museums, and New Mexico. Previous to Dr. Lidchi’s new position at the Wheelwright Museum, she was the Head of Research and Collection and Chief Curator at the National Museum of World Cultures (Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen) in the Netherlands, Keeper of World Cultures, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh and Deputy Keeper, Department of Ethnography, British Museum, London. Lidchi has curated over 20 permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions in the UK and the Netherlands. Some of her publications include Surviving Desires: Making and Selling Jewellery in the American Southwest in 2015 and Imaging the Arctic in 1998.