Cultural Management: Our benefactors
The Palladio Trust
A number of Art Curatorship students and graduates have benefited from the generosity of the Palladio Trust, which has provided an annual grant since 2000 to allow the successful applicant to take up an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The Palladio Trust covers travel and contributing costs, and the Guggenheim provides the internship and funds for expenses in Venice. The Guggenheim also provides interns with a program of travel to cultural sites in and around Venice.
- The 2007 successful applicant was Art Curatorship Masters student: Stephen Payne.
- The 2006 successful applicant was Art Curatorship Masters student: Caterina Sciacca.
The Anne Marie and Arturo Gandioli Fumagalli Foundation
Dr Christopher Marshall was recently awarded the inaugural Poldi Pezzioli Internship. The internship provides postgraduate students and teaching staff of the Art History and Art Curatorship programs with financial assistance to travel to Milan, Italy, to participate in an internship program at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, owing to the generous benefaction of the Anne Marie and Arturo Gandioli Fumagalli Foundation.
Further information about the Poldi Pezzoli Museum.
The internship aims to provide an opportunity for postgraduate students and teaching staff to gain practical experience of museology and familiarity with an important art collection. The successful candidate will join a group of interns from different countries who learn together in a creative international atmosphere and acquaint themselves with the life and culture of Milan.
Christopher Marshall's interview in which he gives a description of his internship and the project he undertook in the Poldi Pezzoli museum.