PATRON
Mariella Frostrup is the first patron of Kids in Museums. Mariella has firmly established herself at the top end of opinion forming journalists and TV presenters. Defying any attempt to pigeonhole her skills and talents, Mariella has made her mark on a wide variety of programmes.
On television in a fifteen-year career she has continued to impress both audiences and critics with her friendly, accessible and intelligent screen presence. Her projects run the gamut from current affairs (Panorama, Question Time and Backlash) to movies and the arts, presenting Open Book and the recent Memory Season on BBC Radio 4.
Mariella is also a respected arts critic and has sat on the judging panels of many awards including the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Evening Standard Film Awards, the Amnesty International Media Awards, the Whitbread Book Of The Year, the London Film Festival and the RIBA Stirling Prize Awards 2006. Mariella lives in London with her husband and two children.
TRUSTEES
We are very sad that our valued, energetic Trustee Brian Stewart died unexpectedly on 12th December 2010. We miss his advice and insights to Kids in Museums, part of his passionate commitment to making art accessible to all. Find out more about Brian and his contribution in his obituary in the Guardian newspaper.
The Kids in Museums trustees are an interesting bunch, bringing a wide range of experience and outlooks to the board. The trustees oversee the vision and aims of the organisation and the implementation of the projects.
DR ELIZABETH MACKENZIE is a member of the Ship’s Advisory Council, ss Great Britain Trust, and Vice-Chairman for the British Association of Friends of Museums (BAFM).
From 1998-2004 she was Chairman of BAFM having served as a Vice-Chairman and Regional Representative for the South West. She was also co-chair of Museums and Galleries Month in 2007, and has been on the Museums Association Governing Bodies Forum. In 2005 and 2006, she was a judge for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year. Before retiring, Liz was a Consultant Cytopathologist in Bristol and President of the British Society for Clinical Cytology.
JULIE TAYLOR Julie Taylor is a freelance communications consultant. From 2001 until 2010 Julie was the Head of Public Relations for Guardian News and Media (GNM), publisher of the award-winning Guardian and Observer newspapers and Guardian.co.uk.
She was previously Director of Communications at the Museums and Galleries Commission responsible for the organisation’s on and offline publishing programme and publication marketing as well as internal and external communications. She has managed PR for the National Magazine Company, promoting flagship titles including Esquire, Harpers & Queen and Country Living. In addition she has worked for a range of arts organisations including Birmingham Royal Ballet, Opera North, the National Theatre, and the Arts Council. Julie is also a trustee of Museums Sheffield and in her spare time reviews modern and classical dance.
ANRA KENNEDY is Head of Programmes at Culture24. Her role at C24 encompasses writing, research, editorial and educational development, and the production of e-learning resources. Show Me is all about encouraging children to enjoy museums and galleries and attracts several million visitors each year.
Anra’s worked on many different e-learning projects over the last few years, including games and resources for the National Portrait Gallery, the Natural History Museum and Access Art. Her most recent and ongoing project is the Parliament and the British Slave Trade 1600-1807 website, created for the Parliamentary Archives. Her writing and e-learning consultancy clients include MLA, Becta, Norfolk Museums, TES, The Open University and the Anglo-Sikh Heritage Trail.
DIANE LEES is Director General of the Imperial War Museums. Beginning as an historic buildings researcher and moving into exhibitions, education and interpretation, she has worked on some of the most challenging and exciting projects in the country, including the rescue and relocation of a hat block manufacturers workshop in central Manchester and the recovery and display of the Mary Rose ship in Portsmouth Harbour.
She project managed the creation of the UK standard for the recording of information about museum collections (SPECTRUM) and was responsible for the creation of the only museum of law in the Country (the multi-award winning Galleries of Justice in Nottingham). She is a trustee of the Army Museums Ogilby Trust.
PHILIP MOULD OBE (Acting Chair) is one of the country’s foremost authorities on British art, and is widely consulted by galleries, private collectors and the media. He is regarded as the leading specialist in British portraiture, including Tudor and Jacobean, seventeenth and eighteenth century, and even contemporary commissions. He is also well known for his numerous discoveries in the area of early British art.
Philip is an expert valuer for the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Government’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme and since 1998 has been official art adviser to the House of Commons and to the House of Lords. In recognition of his art world expertise and contribution to portrait heritage he was created OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the January 2005 New Year’s Honours list.
Philip has published on art related subjects and is the author of the acclaimed book Sleepers: In Search of Lost Old Masters (published in paperback as The Trail of Lot 163 by 4th Estate, London). He is also a regular broadcaster, reviewer and writer for the national press. His television work includes writing and presenting the Channel 4 series, Changing Faces, co-presenting BBC2′s Antiques Show, and as an expert on the Antiques Road Show.
VICTORIA DAVISON is the COO of Marsh UK. She is an expert in financial strategy and planning, and has worked on projects in many of the world’s financial centers. Previously she spent 18 years working at UBS, where she co-founded an organization to support and promote families and was an active board member of their various women’s organizations. Victoria lives in London with her husband and four children.
HELEN WILLETT is a partner in City law firm SJ Berwin specialising in commercial real estate. Before becoming a lawyer Helen did a degree in Chemistry and Philosophy of Science at Kings College, University of London and then taught English at a language school in Paris.
Helen lives in South London and is mum to six and a half year old twins Edith and Lois who along with their friends, twins, Catherine and Lucy were judges for the Horniman Museum which was short listed in the Guardian’s 2006 Kids in Museums Award.
TONY BUTLER is the Director of Museum of Anglian Life (MEAL). Apart from its regular function as an open-air museum, MEAL’s work focuses on training and skills development for vulnerable people, therapeutic care for those with mental health difficulties and heritage apprenticeships. He is also leading the Happy Museum project which aims to establish a community of museum practice based on well-being and sustainability.
Tony was a the Museums fellow on the Clore Leadership programme in 2007-08 and is also trustee of the Poetry Trust and Aldeburgh Museum. He lives in rural Suffolk with his partner Rachel and their two girls.
