Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, has been appointed to steer the British Museum, taking over an array of challenges on the world’s oldest nationwide museum after a theft scandal and the invention of significant issues in its governance and amid requires the Parthenon Marbles to return to Greece.
Cullinan led a serious transformation on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery that met essential and public acclaim. “We imagine he can obtain this, and extra, on the larger scale of the British Museum as we undertake a once-in-a-generation redevelopment,” George Osborne, the chair of the British Museum, mentioned in an announcement.
Cullinan has beforehand served as a curator on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York, and at Tate Trendy, the place he labored on the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Lower-Outs. He studied historical past of artwork on the Courtauld Institute.
Within the assertion, Cullinan mentioned he appears ahead to constructing on his successes on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery and “collectively reimagining the British Museum for the widest potential viewers and future generations.”
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