Sonia Solicari

Sonia Solicari (born 1978, City of London) is a British curator and museum director. She has been the Director of the Museum of the Home, in Hoxton, London, since January 2017.[2]

Sonia Solicari
Born1978[1]
City of London
OccupationCurator, Director of the Museum of the Home
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity College London, Royal Holloway University of London, King's College London, Bishop Stopford's School at Enfield

Biography

Early life and education

Solicari was born in London to Italian parents and grew up in Enfield, north London.[3]

Solicari did her undergraduate studies in English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, followed by postgraduate degrees in Nineteenth-Century Studies at King's College London and Museum Studies at University College London.[3]

Career

Solicari began her career on the Victoria and Albert Museum's development programme for assistant curators. She worked at the V&A for eight years as a curator of paintings and later ceramics and glass.[3]

Previously she was head of the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London.[4]

Museum of the Home

In 2017 Solicari became Director of the Museum of the Home (formerly the Geffrye Museum of the Home) in Hoxton, east London. She succeeded David Dewing who had run the Museum for 25 years.[2]

As Director of the museum, Solicari has overseen an £18.1 million capital development project[5] to expand and transform the site. The restoration of the Grade I Listed museum buildings was overseen by architects Wright & Wright and will create 80% more space for events, collections and exhibitions.[6]

Solicari also oversaw the rebranding of the museum, with the name changed to the Museum of the Home to better reflect the collections and to reflect the changes over time in the museum's focus.[7]

With Alison Blunt, Solicari is co-director of the Centre for Studies of Home, a collaboration with Queen Mary, University of London.[8]

References
  1. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/browse?btog=chap&gender=Female&lifestatus=Alive&t=OccupationsAndRealmsOfRenown%3A119&t0=OccupationsAndRealmsOfRenown%3A938
  2. "Sonia Solicari to be new Director of the Geffrye Museum". ArtsProfessional.
  3. "A working life: the art gallery curator". the Guardian. October 14, 2011.
  4. "London design secrets from Shoreditch's Geffrye Museum director". Homes and Property. July 10, 2017.
  5. https://blooloop.com/news/geffrye-museum-renamed-home/#:~:text=The%20Geffrye%20Museum%20is%20reopening,name%2C%20vision%20and%20exhibition%20spaces.
  6. "Expanded buildings | New spaces | Refreshed Gardens | Museum of the Home". www.museumofthehome.org.uk.
  7. ""The past has a lot to offer to contemporary debates", says Museum of the Home director". Dezeen. December 16, 2019.
  8. "People". www.studiesofhome.qmul.ac.uk.
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