When Anne Lambert arrived at the University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum of Art in the fall of 1975, it had been open for just four years and had about 2,000 works in its permanent collection.
Today, the museum, renamed the Chazen Museum of Art last year, has about 18,000 works of art.
It is up to Lambert, the museum’s longtime curator of education, to help the public appreciate those works of art, which run from the ancient world to contemporary society and which cross many cultures.