Jane Weeks

Deputy Chairman

Jane Weeks was appointed a Trustee in April 2008 and became Deputy Chairman in 2009. She is a consultant specialising in strategic planning and project management.

 

She has worked with large national museums, cultural institutions and small independently-run collections both in the UK and abroad, and clients include the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the British Council, the National Maritime Museum, and University College London.

As part of her work for the British Council, she has organised seminars in the UK and overseas, working with organisations such as English Heritage, the National Trust, Europa Nostra and ICOMOS.

Jane trained as an archaeologist before undertaking research in nautical archaeology at Bristol University. Following maritime research projects in Italy, Germany, and Poland, she worked in the Museum of London, before joining a publishing house specialising in maritime history.

In 1987, she was appointed Press Officer at the National Maritime Museum, later becoming Marketing Manager. In 1990, she took on the new role of Manager at the Royal Greenwich Observatory (formerly the Old Royal Observatory), the home of the Meridian Line. In 1993, following a major refurbishment, the RGO won the Museum of the Year award for best scientific displays and the Europa Nostra prize for architectural refurbishment.

Jane has worked as a consultant since 1994.

She is currently a member of the Board of Visitors of the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a member of the Advisory Panel for the Burton Art Gallery.

She is a former Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s Committee for the South East, a former council member of the Association of Independent Museums and a former trustee of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, which won the Gulbenkian prize for Museum of the Year in 2007.