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Worcester Art Museum Names New Arms And Armor Curator
The Worcester Art Museum has named a new curator to help oversee one of its major collections.
WORCESTER, MA — The Worcester Art Museum has named a new curator to help oversee one of its major collections.
Jeremy Reeves will begin work in August as the museum’s Higgins Assistant Curator of Arms and Armor and European Decorative Arts, the museum announced Tuesday. Reeves joins WAM as the museum at 55 Salisbury St. continues its work on the John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, which reopened in newly designed galleries in November 2025.
Reeves’ scholarship focuses on European and global arms and armor traditions, according to the museum. He has worked as a curatorial assistant at Bard Graduate Center since 2021 while completing his doctorate, contributing to exhibitions on decorative arts from Europe and Africa.
He also previously served as curator at the Lac-Brome Museum in Quebec, where he managed a collection of more than 15,000 objects and led an accreditation process for the museum, according to WAM.
Claire Whitner, WAM’s director of curatorial affairs and the James A. Welu Curator of European Art, said Reeves brings museum experience and international academic training to the role.
Reeves holds a PhD in Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture from Bard Graduate Center. His dissertation focused on 16th-century French firearms and early modern gun culture. He also holds an MPhil in Museums and Archaeological Heritage from the University of Cambridge and bachelor’s degrees from Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris.
“The Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum is one of the great arms and armor holdings in the world, and the Museum’s commitment to presenting these objects as art is exactly the approach I have devoted my career to advancing,” Reeves said in the announcement.
