Free London Lecture ‘Travelling and Collecting in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s: the collections of Růžena Charlota Urbanová in the National Musuem, Prague’
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe speaker will be Dr Fiona Kerlogue (Former Deputy Keeper of Anthropology at the Horniman Musuem) In March 1938 the Czech author and painter Růžena Urbanová set off from Marseilles on a journey round the world. In the Dutch East Indies she made a substantial collection of objects, now in the Náprstek Museum in Prague.…