Kirsten Tambling

writer and curator

Current projects

As of April 2025, I am Curator of The Clockworks, the world’s only museum dedicated to electrical horology.

My monograph, ‘The Shakespearean Object in the Royal Collection, 1714-1939: From National Treasure to Family Heirloom’ is out now with Oxford University Press.

I also regularly write for a range of arts publications, and was long listed for the Observer / Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism twice: in 2023, and 2025.

All publications…