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Remembering Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, groundbreaking director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Charismatic leader who steered the museum through a difficult period in the 1980s, and later became a university vice-chancellor

Charles Saumarez-Smith
4 December 2024
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Elizabeth Esteve-Coll proposed a “clearer separation between research and collections management” at the V&A Colaimages/Alamy Stock Photo
Victoria & Albert Museumarchive
1 March 1995

Six years ago, Elizabeth Esteve-Coll sacked four keepers of curatorial departments and other staff. One of those keepers assesses her achievements

Has the V&A lost its head?

The Art Newspaper
Victoria & Albert Museumarchive
1 January 1995

Victoria & Albert Museum director to become Vice Chancellor of UEA

East Anglia University lures Elizabeth Esteve-Coll

Anna Somers Cocks