Mark Jones is to step down as director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) to become Master of St Cross College, Oxford, in September next year.
He has been at the museum in the role of director since 2001 and was awarded a knighthood for services to the arts in the 2010 New Year honours list.
Jones said: “After 10 enormously enjoyable years at the V&A, a period in which the public interest in creative design has grown significantly in Britain and abroad, I now look forward to taking on a new role as Master of St Cross College, Oxford, a postgraduate college whose students and fellows are doing research in areas of great interest and importance.”
A previous chairman of the National Museum Directors' Conference, Jones is currently a trustee of the National Trust, the Gilbert Trust for the Arts and the Pilgrim Trust. He is also a member of the court and council of the Royal College of Art.
He has been at the museum in the role of director since 2001 and was awarded a knighthood for services to the arts in the 2010 New Year honours list.
Jones said: “After 10 enormously enjoyable years at the V&A, a period in which the public interest in creative design has grown significantly in Britain and abroad, I now look forward to taking on a new role as Master of St Cross College, Oxford, a postgraduate college whose students and fellows are doing research in areas of great interest and importance.”
A previous chairman of the National Museum Directors' Conference, Jones is currently a trustee of the National Trust, the Gilbert Trust for the Arts and the Pilgrim Trust. He is also a member of the court and council of the Royal College of Art.