Lecture
Michael Glickman and Justine Fisher
Sunday 12.04.2026
Michael Glickman and Justine Fisher
Walking Through History: Lessons From ‘Anne Frank The Exhibition’
Sunday 12.04.2026
How to watch
This lecture starts on 12 April at 7:00pm (UK).
Summary
Museums are not neutral spaces; they are trusted public institutions that help societies confront difficult questions about memory, responsibility, and truth. “Walking Through History: Lessons from Anne Frank The Exhibition” explores how museums can move beyond preservation to become active civic participants—going where people are, building educational partnerships, and combating ignorance with evidence and empathy. Centered on the Holocaust and the ongoing fight against antisemitism, this conversation examines how exhibitions like Anne Frank The Exhibition keep history grounded, relevant, and in front of the public while reimagining museums as essential democratic infrastructure.
Michael Glickman
Michael S. Glickman is a social entrepreneur focused on Jewish life, public memory, and cultural innovation. He is the Founder of jMUSE, a pioneering venture in arts and culture philanthropy that connects institutions, experts, and philanthropists to test new models for advancing ideas and creative expression across the U.S., Israel, and Europe. Through jMUSE, he advises foundations and families, develops major exhibitions and public programs—including Anne Frank The Exhibition—and spearheads initiatives such as “The Eldridge Street Summit,” “The Jewish Museums Project,” and “Activating Archives, Libraries, and Museums in the Fight Against Antisemitism.” Previously, Glickman served as President & CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage, led the Center for Jewish History, and held a senior leadership role at Long Island University. He also serves as a trustee of a major philanthropic foundation and is completing his doctorate at Indiana University.
Justine Fisher
Justine Fisher was born in Cape Town, South Africa. She currently lives and works in Watermill, NY, where she creates large-scale oil paintings that blend abstraction and figuration, landscapes and domestic interiors, and the real and the uncanny. Working within these liminal spaces, Fisher builds numerous gestural layers of color, form, and texture to create works that draw from traditional genres, art history, her own personal experiences, and the natural world to investigate the complexity of human nature, intellect, and desire. Justine received her MFA in 2013 from the New York Academy of Art, her BFA in 2010 from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her BA in Art History in 2007 from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions organized by Weosky Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2013); New York Academy of Art, New York, NY (2013 and 2012); Sotheby’s, New York, NY (2011), and Phillips de Pury, New York, NY (2010).