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Leadership

Whitworth appoints Sook-Kyung Lee as director

Lee to join Manchester gallery from Tate Modern

Elizabeth McKay to head up London Transport Museum

McKay to replace outgoing chief Sam Mullins

Profile | ‘We’re trying to make a ruckus and that might annoy some people’

Geraldine Kendall Adams talks to Sara Wajid and Zak Mensah who are working together to lead Birmingham Museums Trust into a brave new world

John Leighton to step down from National Galleries of Scotland

Director-general will leave in 2024 after 18 years in the role

Profile | ‘Our exhibitions can be broader, bigger and bolder’

Douglas Gilmore, the managing director of the Museum of London Docklands, on his plans to raise the profile of the venue

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Why the Royal Cornwall Museum needed a new leadership structure

Creativity and ambition is vital, say Jonathan Morton and Bryony Robins

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Women’s stories must be the focus for leadership

Discrimination is still prevalent, say Siobhán McGuirk and Nirmal Puwar

Alistair Hudson to leave Manchester galleries for new role in Germany

Whitworth and Manchester Art Gallery chief will step down at the end of 2022

Diane Lees to step down as director-general of IWM

Institution’s first female head will leave in 2023 after 15 years

Whitechapel Gallery appoints new director

Gilane Tawadros takes the reins in October

Johnathan Dalzell named director of Northern Ireland Museums Council

Dalzell joins the organisation from Belfast’s Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute

Deborah Swallow steps down from Courtauld

Organisation's first female director retires after 18 years