Dr. Anne Galastro

Biography

Spending years abroad, mainly in Italy and Japan, Anne Galastro studied History of Art and Architectural History as a mature student at the University of Edinburgh, where she continued her PhD exploring the institutional history of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Anne has taught Architectural History courses at the University of Edinburgh and at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at Glasgow School of Art. Her teaching activities have covered a wide range of subjects, including surveys of global architecture and a course on Scottish architecture from 1900 to the present day. Her main research area focuses on the architecture of cultural institutions, particularly the evolution of museums as important public establishments since the origins of the European Enlightenment. This includes examining the shifting attitudes toward museums as western-centric institutions and current scrutiny of museums as instruments of colonial dominance, which raises significant questions about the presentation of cultural heritage more generally. Anne has a particular interest in the role architecture plays in establishing specific institutional identities for museums of modern art. She has researched the display of art in country houses and the trend of using country houses as venues for contemporary art. Anne has collaborated on exhibitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, including 'Picasso Paper' (2007) and 'Joan Eardley: Sense of Place' (2017), for which she co-wrote the catalogue.

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