Sharon Heal
Sharon Heal
Director, Museums Association
Human remains policy is criticised
English Heritage questions Manchester Museum's human remains policy
The Museum of… Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections
Sharon Heal hears how the Museum of Scottish Lead Mining survives in its remote Scottish location
MLA to reduce staff in London by 70 per cent
Staff managing specific programmes and in corporate services to be relocated to Birmingham
Selling point
Selling lesser artworks to fund the purchase of better ones is common practice in the US. But could it happen in this country, asks Sharon Heal in the second of her three-part series on disposals
Public relations
In the last of three articles on disposal, Sharon Heal looks at how public perception and industry attitudes are changing, and what the future might hold
The great giveaway
In the first of three articles on disposal, Sharon Heal looks at the ways in which museums have changed how they manage their collections over the years