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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Forbes House Museum Director to Speak About China Trip

Robin Tagliaferri will discuss her recent trip to China at the Milton Public Library on January 9.

On January 9, Robin Tagliaferri, executive director of the Forbes House Museum, will speak at the Milton Public Library about her recent trip to China. Refreshments will be served in the Keys Community Room and the presentation will begin at 7. Tagliaferri shared photos and stories from her trip with Patch when she returned. That story is available here. Below is an announcement for the January presentation. Forbes House Museum Director, Robin Tagliaferri, recently returned from a trip to China, where she visited Shanghai, Nanchang, the Fuliang County, Jingdezhen and Beijing. The ten day trip included attendance at the Second Seminar on Chinese Export Porcelain of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, sponsored by Professor Yu Chunming and Nanchang…

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Forbes House Director Travels to China, Introduces Milton Museum at International Seminar

Robin Tagliaferri, the executive director of the Forbes House Museum, spent 10 days in China presenting at an export porcelain symposium and traveling.

Since taking over as Executive Director of the Forbes House Museum in 2010, Robin Tagliaferri has stressed collaboration and outreach. In late October, that outreach—and the potential for future international partnerships—stretched all the way to China. Tagliaferri represented the Forbes House Museum, a family house museum that focuses on the local connection to the American China Trade and the Forbes family, during a 10-day trip to china that included an export porcelain seminar at the Nanchang University Museum. Tagliaferri was one of 16 presenters at the weeklong symposium that featured speakers from the United States and China as well as England and the Netherlands. “I got the chance to introduce everyone to the Forbes House,” said …

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