Leadership
King’s Birthday Honours List celebrates museum and heritage sector
Wellcome’s Melanie Keen and Beamish’s Rhiannon Hiles among those recognised this year
Q&A | ‘The people of Wakefield have voted for change, and we have to engage with that’
Olivia Colling and Laura Smith on joint leadership, commercial ambitions and working with a Reform council
Moves | Shakespeare Birthplace Trust gets first creative director
More senior appointments at Foundling Museum and Amgueddfa Cymru
Helen Hartstein appointed manager of Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Hartstein will shape museum’s long-term direction and development of its programme
Hepworth Wakefield appoints Olivia Colling and Laura Smith as co-directors
Pair will 'complement each other's strengths'
Cathy Putz appointed director of Ben Uri Gallery
Putz to work on delivery of museum’s recently announced digital research institute
Joe Hill to take up helm at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Meanwhile, Sally Tallant is named as new director of London’s Hayward Gallery
Melanie Keen steps down as director of Wellcome Collection
Sam Owen to act as interim director when Keen leaves this spring
Art Fund launches Museum Directors Survey 2026
Charity urges leaders to help shape its new five-year strategy
Moves | Recent appointments in museums, galleries and heritage
Suzanne Rolt named chief executive of Arnolfini | Anna Jobson joins Freud Museum
