Jeremy Hill is the Research Manager for The British Museum and led the 'History of the World through 100 objects' project. He shares his journey and 7 tips for a being a good recruit.
Industry Insight
What is it like to work in a museum, planning the programme of activities, talks and educational events? Julia Kirby, Learning Manager for Birmingham Museums Trust, shared four pieces of advice for getting into heritage education.
Creative Voices
Are diversity schemes effective? What needs to change? Cultural leaders from galleries and museums discuss ethnic minority participation in the arts and heritage sectors.
Industry Insight
Sook-Kyung Lee is a curator at Tate Liverpool. She combines the academic approach of a traditional museum curator with a remit to bring what is often quite demanding work to a wide audience.
Industry Insight
Employees at the Chatsworth stately home describe the challenges of working at a heritage site, and how their modern art collections brings in new audiences.
Develop Your Career
Heritage venues rely on visitors to survive. But what makes someone visit in the first place? Will they spend money while they are there? And how do you persuade them to return?
Develop Your Career
Lucy Povey is an experienced events manager and venue consultant. She works with venues to help them reach their potential by maximising income from the hire of their event spaces.
Creative Voices
John Kieffer has worked in cultural policy, arts management and programming for over 20 years. He spoke about what he feels are the biggest challenges facing the cultural sector.
Industry Insight
Taryn Nixon, Managing Director of the Museum of London Archaeology, talks about the variety of work done by the 200 archaeologists there, and the best ways to get into the field.
Industry Insight
Jane Alison is Senior Curator at The Barbican, where she has worked for 25 years. Her work includes organising exhibitions and events, editing catalogues and managing a core exhibitions team of 12.
Organise and show exhibitions of artefacts
Oversee the running of a venue or function
Many non-profit organisations rely on volunteers
Organise and coordinate a range of activities
Responsible for all publication material
Work to promote various institutions or regions
Deliver a range of initiatives to a local area
Project Organisers’ work varies considerably
Managing people and buildings
Responsible for a wide range of tasks
