Barber Institute Director leaves to head Birmingham Museums Trust
Feb 22 2012 |
Written by
Rhiannon Doyle - Maw
The current Director at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham Professor Ann Sumner has been named as the first Director of Birmingham Museums Trust. Professor Sumner will assume her new role on a full-time basis from 1st May; she will take charge of the new body of responsibility for running Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery and Thinktank.
Professor Sumner said:
‘I am enormously honoured to have been appointed to this exciting new role. The high quality and diversity of the collections which will be managed by the new Trust are outstanding, and hugely popular with the people of Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond. I have had a wonderful four and a half years working at the Barber Institute at the University of Birmingham and I am now relishing an exciting new opportunity.’
Birmingham City Council Cabinet Member for Leisure, Sport and Culture, Cllr Martin Mullaney, said: ‘Professor Sumner has a wealth of experience and her appointment comes at a very exciting time for museum services in Birmingham. We’re combining the Birmingham City Council Museums and Thinktank Trust into a new single trust that, in visitor numbers, will instantly become one of the world’s top 40 museums, attracting more than one million visitors a year.’
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Written by
Rhiannon Doyle - Maw
on Feb 22 2012. Filed under Campus, News.
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