Several significant appointments were made across the museum and culture sectors over the summer.
The Royal Armouries has appointed Edward Impey as director-general following the resignation of Jonathon Riley last year.
Impey will take up the position in October. He joins from English Heritage, where he is the director of heritage protection and planning.
Riley was temporarily suspended last year pending a review of issues raised by the museum’s auditors. Six months later, he resigned from the museum.
Chris Walker, the Royal Armouries’ interim chief executive, is leaving the organisation to take up a post at the National Gallery. Meanwhile, Birmingham Museums Trust has appointed Ellen McAdam as its new director.
McAdam will leave her position as head of museums and collections at Glasgow Life, where she has worked since 2001, to take up her new post in the autumn. A new chair of the Birmingham Museums Trust, established in 2012, is also expected to be announced in the autumn.
At the National Railway Museum in York, Paul Kirkman has taken over as director.
He joined the museum on secondment from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, where he was head of arts and creative industries.
In London, the design and architecture curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), Abraham Thomas, will become director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum on 3 December. At the Museum of London, Clive Bannister will take over as chairman on 2 October.
Bannister is chief executive of the London-based Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest consolidator of closed life-assurance funds.
Finally, Caroline Douglas, head of the Arts Council Collection since 2006, will lead the London-based Contemporary Art Society (CAS) from next month.
Former CAS director Paul Hobson, meanwhile, takes the reins at Modern Art Oxford this month.
The Royal Armouries has appointed Edward Impey as director-general following the resignation of Jonathon Riley last year.
Impey will take up the position in October. He joins from English Heritage, where he is the director of heritage protection and planning.
Riley was temporarily suspended last year pending a review of issues raised by the museum’s auditors. Six months later, he resigned from the museum.
Chris Walker, the Royal Armouries’ interim chief executive, is leaving the organisation to take up a post at the National Gallery. Meanwhile, Birmingham Museums Trust has appointed Ellen McAdam as its new director.
McAdam will leave her position as head of museums and collections at Glasgow Life, where she has worked since 2001, to take up her new post in the autumn. A new chair of the Birmingham Museums Trust, established in 2012, is also expected to be announced in the autumn.
At the National Railway Museum in York, Paul Kirkman has taken over as director.
He joined the museum on secondment from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, where he was head of arts and creative industries.
In London, the design and architecture curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), Abraham Thomas, will become director of the Sir John Soane’s Museum on 3 December. At the Museum of London, Clive Bannister will take over as chairman on 2 October.
Bannister is chief executive of the London-based Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest consolidator of closed life-assurance funds.
Finally, Caroline Douglas, head of the Arts Council Collection since 2006, will lead the London-based Contemporary Art Society (CAS) from next month.
Former CAS director Paul Hobson, meanwhile, takes the reins at Modern Art Oxford this month.