Minerva Inwald is a current PhD candidate in the Department of History, University of Sydney, whose research focuses on the history of the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) between 1958 and 1989. Using Chinese-language primary sources to examine how exhibitions as this prestigious space were used to communicate ideas about the role of art in China in relation to conceptions of ‘the people,’ her research seeks to investigate broader questions of how art objects circulate in museum contexts, as well as outside museums such as in domestic, work and public spheres. In 2016 Minerva co-curated the exhibition Floating Time: Chinese Prints 1954–2002 at the University of Sydney Art Gallery and contributed texts to the exhibition catalogue. She has contributed a number of papers at academic conferences in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and in 2015-16 undertook an 8-month postgraduate exchange program at Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts.