Jane Marriott will join the Hepworth Wakefield as its new deputy director in August. She is currently the director of development and director of the Royal Academy Trust at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
This month, Colin McKenzie starts at House of Illustration, London, as its new director. He is the former director of the Charleston Trust. Flora Craig, the house’s project director, will leave in July.
Nat Edwards is the National Trust for Scotland’s new assistant director (south). He had been the director and general manager of the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum.
Dirk Bennett is the new head of interpretation at the National Army Museum, London. He is a former interpretation manager at English Heritage.
Psychologist and academic Dany Nobus has taken over the chairmanship of the Freud Museum, after writer Lisa Appignanesi stood down after eight years.
Iain Gordon has been appointed as the director of the King Richard III Visitor Centre Trust in Leicester. He is a former general manager of Snibston Discovery Park in Coalville.
Susan McCormack, the director of public engagement at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum, has been appointed to the Heritage Lottery Fund’s committee for south-east England.
Jonathan Griffin retires as the director of the National Maritime Museum Cornwall in September.
Sir John Soane’s Museum news: consultant Katrin Bellinger Henkel is its representative trustee of the Royal Society of Arts. The architect David Chipperfield is the representative trustee of the Royal Academy.
