Reflections on Collecting with Dr. Kenson Kwok

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Date: Wednesday, 13 May 2020, 7 pm (Singapore time zone)
A Virtual Talk on ZOOM for SEACS members and their guests.

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This talk, by Dr. Kenson Kwok, will cover the topic of why what you have at home may not be good enough for a museum, and what is good enough for a museum should probably not be in your home. Last but not least, Dr.Kwok will speak on the interface between private and institutional collecting and how one can feed the other, but also why they should remain quite distinct.

About Dr. Kenson Kwok

Dr. Kenson Kwok, a past President of SEACS, is the founding director of Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum and the Peranakan Museum, two national museums dedicated to promoting Singaporeans’ multicultural ancestry. He oversaw the expansion of the two museums’ collections from very modest and limited beginnings. On 31 December 2009, Kenson retired as director of those two museums after a museum career that spanned 18 years. During his tenure, he opened three museums, mounted over 60 exhibitions, brought in over $100 million worth of loans and $16 million worth of artefact donations. Since childhood, Kenson has also been a collector of all sorts of things, including ceramics.

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The talk is free and open to SEACS members and their guests. No RSVP is required. The program will begin at 7.00pm promptly and end at approximately 8.15pm.