Georgina Walker is Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship at the University of Melbourne.

She has developed a significant academic profile in the emerging field of private museums and cultural philanthropy at the University of Melbourne, Australia and internationally with an innovative specialisation in private and public museum studies, historical and contemporary museum/curatorial and art market studies. This expertise contributes to the versatility and scope of her research, allowing Georgina to use historical knowledge/developments to interrogate/interpret contemporary issues, and vice versa. The rise of private museums has dominated her scholarly research since 2010 - Master Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation. Her monograph The Private Collector's Museum: Public Good Versus Private Gain (Routledge, 2019) is the first study to connect the rising popularity of private museums with new models of philanthropy, collecting and complex inter-relationships between private and public museums.

Georgina's research has focused on distinct models of the private museum with an emphasis on museums in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Australia. Her forthcoming monograph, The Rise of the Contemporary Private Art Museum (Routledge) will offer the first in-depth survey of an unprecedented period of private museum building in Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. Other publications include the book chapter entitled A new type of house museum: Lyon Housemuseum, Melbourne (2009) in The evolving House Museum: Art Collectors and Their Residences, Then and Now (Brill, 2024); peer-reviewed article in Arts & Communication, From here to eternity: The rise and fall of global art worlds and the contemporary private museum' (2024); co-authored bibliographic resource for Oxford Bibliographies in Art History, 'Museums in Australia' (2019); and a journal article in The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum, 'A Twenty-first-century Wunderkammer: Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia' (2016).

Georgina is a Trustee on the Board of Management at The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA), member of The Grainger Academic Reference Group at the University of Melbourne and formerly, a Member of the Board of Management at The Duldig Studio Museum and Sculpture Garden, Melbourne (2019 - 2022).

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