Dr. Daved Anthony Schmidt

Director of Collections and Curation | Museum of the Bible

  • Anthony Schmidt leads the collections and curation team at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC and curated the Justice Gallery at the Faith and Liberty Discovery Center. Most recently he was the lead curator for the 2023 MOTB exhibit Scripture and Science. He also led the MOTB exhibition on the Slave Bible and was responsible for assessing the financial impact of slavery on Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton Seminary and Slavery: A Report of the Historical Audit Committee.
  • Anthony holds a PhD in American Religious History from Princeton Theological Seminary and has also studied at Vanderbilt and the University of Oklahoma.
  • His research interests include Christian history, popular piety, Jewish-Christian relations, popular science, and African American Christianity.