Collectors Roundtable: Building a Museum Collection – Conversation with Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator at the Florence Griswold Museum

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Mystic Museum of Art is delighted to host special guest Amy Kurtz Lansing, Curator at the Florence Griswold Museum, at our April 2026 session of the Collectors Roundtable. Museums teem with collections, but how and why did they get there? What considerations are unique to museum collecting, in contrast to private collecting? This talk takes you behind the scenes to illustrate how museums approach their collection growth and development.

Amy Kurtz Lansing is Curator at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT, where she oversees a collection of more than 7,000 objects. A specialist in 19th-21st century art of the United States, she has organized an array of exhibitions including Impressionism 150: From Paris to Connecticut and Beyond, Fresh Fields: American Impressionist Landscapes and Call of the Coast: Art Colonies of New England. Her current exhibition, Revelations: A Decade of Collecting, 2016-2026, explores how she has been evolving the Florence Griswold Museum collections over the past ten years toward an ever-wider representation of Connecticut artists.

Admission is free with registration, but space is limited so reserve your spot online or by calling 860.536.7601 and pressing 0. All art lovers are welcome to these discussions of what we collect, and why!

Doors open at 5, and the Collectors Roundtable begins promptly at 5:30pm. Parking validations are provided with admission to all evening events at the Museum.