Ada Polak

Ada Buch Polak (19 September 1914 – 25 October 2010) was a Norwegian art historian.

Her father was the engineer Harald Buch (1872–1950) and her mother was the teacher Camilla Collett (1878–1973).

[1] She spent half a year as an associate professor at the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, and was then a curator at West Norway Museum of Decorative Art (Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum) from 1942 to 1948.

[1] Polak spent the rest of her career as a freelance writer, in books, journals and yearbooks, magazines and newspapers.

[1] In July 1948 she married British solicitor Alfred Laurence Polak (1900–1992), and moved to London.