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Louise Tythacott

Louise Ann Tythacott is a British curator, academic, and author. She is a professor emerita at SOAS University of London.

Tythacott's scholarly contributions have included authoring academic books and publishing in journals, book chapters, and exhibition catalogues, some of which have been translated into Chinese and French. She has also led and collaborated on research projects, serving as a PI and co-PI, including a Leverhulme and privately funded project to trace the biographies of looted objects from China's "Summer Palace" and an AHRC-funded study on Tibetan Buddhist monastery collections in Ladakh and northern Nepal. The findings of these Projects are reflected in edited volumes, such as ''Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: the Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France'', and ''Tibetan Monastery Collections and Museums: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Issues''.

Tythacott held the role of Managing Editor for the journal ''Museum and Society'' from 2011 to 2016. Additionally, she serves as a Trustee of the James Henry Green Charitable Trust. Provided by Wikipedia