Sarah Medlam

Sarah Medlam is Curator Emeritus in the Department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum, having retired as Deputy Keeper in 2012. Before joining the Museum in 1992 she was in charge of the Furniture and Woodwork Collections at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, Co Durham, where she worked primarily with French decorative arts, including furniture and textiles. At the V&A she continued to work on European furniture but from 1996 to 2001 she was the Deputy Curator on the British Galleries Project, where her particular responsibilities included the work on the Period Rooms, including the re-installation of the Norfolk House Music Room.