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For over 20 years, Anne Picq has broadened access to the arts for diverse audiences. Explore her professional experience, lectures, and collaborations below.

Anne previously served as Director of Education, Public Programs, and Visitor Experience at the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac and as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Beaux Arts Magazine in Paris. Based in Lausanne, she has worked in Paris, New York, and Milan. She speaks French, English, and Italian.

Anne develops audience-centered strategies and innovative programs both within and beyond museum walls—in schools, hospitals, prisons, community-based organizations. In New York, she initiated a partnership between a public school and The Frick Collection. Since 2022, she has collaborated with the Fondation Hartung-Bergman. She is Co-Scientific Director of a symposium and research program on Art & Disabilities.

She lectures in cultural management, museology, and contemporary art at university and executive levels. Her academic background includes philosophy, political science, art history, and cultural management, with master’s degrees from Sciences Po Paris and a degree in philosophy from La Sorbonne.

TEACHING

ISTITUTO MARANGONI FIRENZE / Course “Museology of the Contemporary”, Master Curating Art and Fashion, 2024-2025 / 2025-2026, Course “Anthropology of Art”, BA Arts Curating and Multimedia Arts, 2024-2025

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BERGAMO / Lecture “Coinvolgere il pubblico e gli artisti per la giustizia sociale”, December 2023

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA / Lecture “Arte e Innovazione sociale”, October 2022

24ORE BUSINESS SCHOOL / Cours pour le Master Economia e Management per l’Arte e la Cultura, 2021-2024

SCIENCES PO, Paris / Guest speaker, Master Cultural Policy & Management, Octobre 2020, Septembre 2021

UNIVERSITÀ BOCCONI / Guest lecturer, Master Economics and Management in Arts, Culture, Media and Entertainment, Feb. 2021

PENNINGHEN, Paris / Cours de culture générale, 2011-2012

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION / RESEARCH & ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

GALLERIE D’ITALIA ACADEMY / Lectures and project work per il corso di alta formazione in “Gestione dei patrimoni artistico-culturali e delle collezioni corporate”, 2023-2026

SCIENCES PO PARIS / Séminaire Arts & Sociétés, Centre d’histoire, Lecture in January 2026

INSTITUT NATIONAL DU PATRIMOINE, Paris / Lecture “The curator: a major player for Art and Cultural Education”, November 2015

CORPORATE TRAININGS

BOTTEGA VENETA / Awareness session on Art & Disabilities for UNIQUE ABILITIES MONTH, for 100 employees based in Veneto, December 2025

KERING / Workshop and special visit for Inclusion & Diversity leaders in Italy, Feb. 2024 & 2025

MIRAKL / Art & Diversity workshops for US employees, with Boston-based non-profit Artists for Humanity and arts4society, Spring 2021

SCHOOLS & NON-PROFITS

INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION IN PROSECUTION, New York / Art series on human resilience & criminal justice reform, led with Aude Adrien, 2020

PS84 & The Frick Collection / Art is the Way, an unprecedented educational partnership between a public school in Manhattan and one of the most prestigious museums in New York City.

TALKS & PANELS

FRENCH INSTITUTE ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE (now L’Alliance New York), New York / Talk “New York, au cœur de la création contemporaine”, June 2022

CONFERENCE NATIONALE DU HANDICAP / Panel discussion: “Inclusion: an innovative and well-meaning society”, alongside France’s President, December 2014