Annabelle Selldorf delivered the 2023 Linbury Lecture at the Natioal Gallery in London. The prestigious Linbury Lecture is an annual event that invites world-renowned speakers specializing in museums, galleries, or academic art history to explore themes relevant to the National Gallery’s history and collections. Held this year at the Royal Academy of Art as the National Gallery’s Theatre is closed during the construction of the NG200 project – a suite of capital projects being led by Selldorf Architects dedicated to making the National Gallery more welcoming and accessible to its diverse audiences.

Entitled “Inhabiting the Museum” the lecture was an opportunity for Annabelle to reflect on her belief in the transformative power of art and architecture and the relationship between the two. Through a series of personal reflections on selected museums, she looked at the ways in which museum architecture has evolved over the generations and how individual buildings and settings impact our understanding and memory of the art we experienced.

Photo by Ralph Mecke courtesy of Selldorf Architects.