In the Queen’s New Year honours list, CBEs went to Janet Barnes, chief executive, York Museums Trust; John Lippiett, the chief executive, Mary Rose Trust; and Harriet Bridgeman, founder, Bridgeman Art Library.
OBEs go to Lindsay Allason-Jones, director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Artefact Study; arts PRs Erica Bolton and Jane Quinn; and Syon Sadka, chairman, Derek Williams Trust, for services to Amguedffa Cymru – National Museum Wales and to the arts in Wales.
MBEs went to Pauline Carder, chairman, Arundel Museum Society; Joseph Elliott, chairman of Coventry Transport Museum’s board of trustees; Mark Jones, head of conservation, Mary Rose Trust; Jean Kershaw, lately deputy director, Helmsley Arts Centre; and Jane Pritchard, curator of dance, theatre and performance collections, Victoria and Albert Museum.
BEMs went to William Day, custodian, RAF Dunsfold Museum; and Robert Tibbits, for voluntary service to the National Railway Museum and railway heritage.
Tate St Ives’s new artistic director is Sam Thorne, who was associate editor at Frieze magazine and a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London.
Herbert Coutts, a former director of culture and leisure, Edinburgh, has been reappointed to the board of trustees of Paxton House, Berwickshire, for a four-year term.
Actor Michael Sheen is now a patron of Kids in Museums.
Photographer Scott Mead is the new chairman of the board at the Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Zdenek Bakala is now on the Design Museum’s board of trustees.
OBEs go to Lindsay Allason-Jones, director, Centre for Interdisciplinary Artefact Study; arts PRs Erica Bolton and Jane Quinn; and Syon Sadka, chairman, Derek Williams Trust, for services to Amguedffa Cymru – National Museum Wales and to the arts in Wales.
MBEs went to Pauline Carder, chairman, Arundel Museum Society; Joseph Elliott, chairman of Coventry Transport Museum’s board of trustees; Mark Jones, head of conservation, Mary Rose Trust; Jean Kershaw, lately deputy director, Helmsley Arts Centre; and Jane Pritchard, curator of dance, theatre and performance collections, Victoria and Albert Museum.
BEMs went to William Day, custodian, RAF Dunsfold Museum; and Robert Tibbits, for voluntary service to the National Railway Museum and railway heritage.
Tate St Ives’s new artistic director is Sam Thorne, who was associate editor at Frieze magazine and a tutor at the Royal College of Art, London.
Herbert Coutts, a former director of culture and leisure, Edinburgh, has been reappointed to the board of trustees of Paxton House, Berwickshire, for a four-year term.
Actor Michael Sheen is now a patron of Kids in Museums.
Photographer Scott Mead is the new chairman of the board at the Photographers’ Gallery, London.
Zdenek Bakala is now on the Design Museum’s board of trustees.
