Sir Tristram Hunt is Director of the V&A – a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Since taking up the post in 2017, he has championed design education in UK schools, encouraged debate around the history of the museum’s colonial past and overseen the transition to a... Read more
What Are Museums for in the 21st Century? - with Tristram Hunt
V&A: Ingenuity and Imagination | Lecture by Dr. Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A, London
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Sir Tristram Hunt is Director of the V&A – a family of museums dedicated to the power of creativity. Since taking up the post in 2017, he has championed design education in UK schools, encouraged debate around the history of the museum’s colonial past and overseen the transition to a multi-site museum. Six UK venues now include: V&A South Kensington, the V&A Wedgwood Collection, V&A Dundee, Young V&A and V&A East – two free cultural destinations dedicated to transforming public access to museum collections. A leading voice on UK culture policy and trends, he has overseen record visitor numbers to the V&A, with sell-out exhibitions on Christian Dior, Gabrielle Chanel, Faberge, Cartier, Schiaparelli and Pink Floyd.
Prior to joining the V&A, Sir Tristram was a prominent UK Labour Party politician as Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central and Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He has a doctorate in Victorian history from Cambridge University. In addition to numerous radio and TV programmes for the BBC and Channel 4, he is the author of several books, including Ten Cities That Made an Empire (2014), The Lives of the Objects (2019) telling the story of the V&A collection, and The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain (2021).
Sir Tristram is a member of the UK Soft Power Council, the Council of the Royal College of Art, the Scientific Council of the Musée du Louvre, and a Governor of The Courtauld,. He is a Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic and an Officer of Spain’s Order of Isabella the Catholic.
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