There is a small but friendly staff supported by volunteers largely drawn from the 800-strong Museum membership.
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Adrian Green
Director
Adrian Green has overall responsibility for all aspects of the Museum, which encompasses managing the collections, building, displays, temporary exhibitions and staff. Adrian’s main priorities at the moment are increasing visitor numbers, widening access to the collections and redeveloping the Museum building.
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Jane Ellis-Schon
Collections Manager
Jane Ellis-Schön is responsible for care, interpretation and documentation of the Museum’s collections, particularly the Designated archaeological collections. She organises the popular Archaeology Lecture series and supervises the Museum’s extensive volunteer programme.
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Laura Bullivant
Learning and Outreach Officer
Laura Bullivant develops and implements the Museum’s educational plan, providing educational sessions for all ages and social backgrounds and encouraging lifelong learning among the Museum’s target audiences.
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Kim Chittick
Exhibitions Officer
Kim Chittick plans and delivers the Museum’s exciting and varied programme of temporary exhibitions. This includes co-ordinating external exhibitions and generating in house projects.
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Ian Strong
Finance Manager
The financial affairs of the Museum Trust are carefully managed by Ian Strong. Ian not only keeps a close eye on the budgets to make savings, but also helps the Museum to generate more revenue through fund raising initiatives.
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Katie Hinds
Finds Liaison Officer
Katie Hinds works for the Portable Antiquities Scheme as the Finds Liaison Officer for Wiltshire. It is her responsibility to record the many thousands of finds reported to the scheme by local metal detector users.
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Valerie Overton
Cleaner
Valerie Overton has the huge task of keeping the King’s House clean. From polishing cases to vacuuming the floor, Val can often be seen around the Museum enthusiastically undertaking her duties. |
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Reception
You can be guaranteed to be greeted with a smile by our enthusiastic front of house team, Christine Gray, Valerie Goodrich, Martin Callow, Rebecca Wood, Kay Shepcar. Whether you have lost your way or want to make a purchase in our shop, reception staff are here to help.
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Martin Callow
Website Manager
Martin Callow maintains this website, amongst his other duties. He welcomes comments about the website.
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Peter Saunders
Curator Emeritus
Peter Saunders was Director of the Museum for over thirty years and retired in 2007. During this time he masterminded the move of the Museum from St Ann’s Street to the King’s House. In recent years he oversaw the establishment of the current Stonehenge Gallery and the transformation of the temporary exhibition gallery. He is now a volunteer at the Museum developing the fourth volume of the Museum’s Medieval Catalogue series.
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Roger Wadey
Membership Secretary and Librarian
Roger undertakes all the administration to support our membership scheme. An important part of his role is to look at ways to encourage new members and provide support for member’s events. He also manages the Museum’s reference library.
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David Algar
Archaeological Finds
David Algar has been a volunteer at the Museum for over forty years. Originally a member of the Salisbury Museum Archaeological Research Group, he was involved with many important excavations in the local area including Laverstock and Old Sarum. He also has a keen interest in Verwood pottery and is supporting the preparation of volume four of the medieval catalogue series.
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The Museum is managed by a board of sixteen Trustees:
Elected
Mr J G Studholme, Chairman
Mr David Spence, Treasurer
Dr D M Balston
Miss Anne Beckwith-Smith
Mr David Coulthard
Mr P G Jeffreys
Mr R M Morgan
Mrs R E Newman
Mr R Petherick
Mr H V Pilkington
Mr R J Wadey
Nominated
Mr D Dawson, Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Mr A N Deane, Wiltshire County Council
Mr D A Hinton, Southampton University
Mr W R Moss, Wiltshire County Council |
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