Major legacy endows Thai Curator post
For more than thirty years, Henry Ginsburg curated the Thai, Lao and Cambodian collections in the British Museum and the British Library. He was an eminent authority on Thai manuscript painting, a field he made largely his own.
Henry’s unique achievement at the British Library was to build up, slowly and steadily, by discerning acquisition, one of the finest collections of illustrated Thai manuscripts in the world.
Henry died suddenly in 2007 and the executors of his estate chose to give a significant gift to the British Library to endow a curatorial post. The first Henry Ginsburg Curator of Thai, Lao and Cambodian is Jana Igunma, who said,
“It is a great honour to be the first Henry Ginsburg Curator. I worked closely with him for several years as his successor as part-time curator for Thai at the Library and am delighted that his name will live on in this special post.”
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