STEPHEN HARRISON - M.B.E., B.A., F.M.A., F.S.A., F.S.A.Scot., M..I.Mgt.
Summary
Director and Chief Executive of Manx National Heritage, having previously worked at York Castle Museum and Beamish Museum in County Durham. Manx National Heritage has won a number of prestigious international awards for its multi-site, interdisciplinary approach to heritage management, including the British Museum of the Year Award twice. Has undertaken a series of major heritage projects in recent years, emphasising the interaction between monuments, museums. historic landscape and the local and tourist communities.
Has led projects in castles conservation, interpretation and display; development of large new museums and interpretation centres; developed a new strategy for linking monuments in the countryside context for the public.
A model for multi-site, interdisciplinary heritage management for defined territories of Europe has been created. This model in the Isle of Man has attracted international attention from many other European countries.
Fellow of the Museums Association of Great Britain; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and of Scotland, and a Member of the Institute of Management, and an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool University.
Trustee of the European Museum Forum which bestows the "European Museum of the Year Award"
Chairman of the international Best in Heritage Conference, Dubrovnik
Member of the International Council of Museums - ICOM(UK) Executive Board since 2000
Key-note speaker at heritage conferences throughout Europe.
Heritage development consultant for heritage projects in Norway, Slovenia, Finland and the Falkland Islands.
Awarded the M.B.E. by Queen Elizabeth in June 2005 for services to Island Heritage.
OFFICE ADDRESS:
Director and Chief Executive
Manx National Heritage
Douglas
Isle of Man
IM1 3LY
British Isles
Tel: +44 (0)1624 648000
Fax: +44 (0)1624 648001
Web-site: www.gov.im/mnh
Email: Stephen.Harrison@mnh.gov.im
