Patricia Marroquin Norby, the Met Museum’s curator of Native American Art, reflects on the lesser-discussed everyday challenges of repatriation work.
Patricia Marroquin Norby
Dr. Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha) is the first full-time curator of Native American Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 153-year history. Prior to that, she served as senior executive and assistant director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at The Newberry in Chicago, and trustee of the Field Museum, where she co-advised on repatriation cases.
