Image: Dr Glyn Morgan © Science Museum Group
The appointment, who first joined the museum in 2018, will take up the new post in May
The Science Museum has appointed a new Head of Collections and Principal Curator.
Dr Glyn Morgan will officially lead the museum’s curatorial, research and library and archives teams from 1 May 2025, replacing Jessica Bradford, who is moving on to the Natural History Museum.
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The museum said the appointment follows a “competitive external recruitment process”.
Morgan is currently the Curatorial Lead for Exhibitions at the Science Museum and has worked on several exhibitions and galleries, most recently as a curator for Versailles: Science and Splendour. Morgan joined the museum in 2018, working as Project Curator for Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination.
Morgan previously worked as a lecturer and tutor, and spent nearly ten years as a bookseller in Liverpool and London while completing a part-time PhD, later published as a book, Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust, in 2020.
Morgan has edited books and journals, designed and taught courses on science fiction at Imperial College and continues to publish academic work on a range of topics, from science fiction to graphic novels.
Sir Ian Blatchford, Director and Chief Executive of the Science Museum Group said the appointment will “bring both creativity and curatorial rigour to this role, ensuring the stories of innovation and ingenuity we tell in our exhibitions and galleries continue to engage and inspire our visitors.”
Dr Morgan added: “To lead our brilliant curatorial team as they turn their imaginations to create new galleries and exhibitions is a dream come true.”
