The Soane Museum Study Group is an open forum for scholars – both established and emerging – to present new research into an aspect of architectural history and/or Soane’s collection.

The 2021 programme will be delivered virtually throughout the year with talks posted on the Soane Museum website

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Erin McKellar
‘You, your family, your neighborhood’. Promoting Modern Planning during World War II

Dr Erin McKellar is the Assistant Curator of Exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum where she has worked since 2019. Her study group session considers exhibitions by architectural curators, encouraging planned housing in America during the 1940s.

Image caption:
Installation view, Wartime Housing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1942. Museum of Modern Art Archives

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