Image: Dr Giuseppe Albano (Trent Park Museum Trust)
Dr Giuseppe Albano MBE joins the trust as its new director before the attractions opens in 2026
The former director of Freud Museum London has been appointed director of Trent Park House of Secrets, a visitor attraction due to open in Enfield, London next Spring.
Trent Park House is a country house which was home to the second World War’s ‘Secret Listeners. ‘Trent Park House of Secrets’ will open in 2026 as a visitor attraction featuring restored and furnished rooms within.
It will reveal the story of the ‘Secret Listeners’, the intelligence operators hidden in the basement of Trent Park House’, whose wartime eavesdropping of senior German prisoners of war led to important intelligence breakthroughs of WWII.
Its director joins from Freud Museum London, and was previously curator and director of the Keats–Shelley House in Rome.
He will be responsible to the Board of Trustees and accountable for the opening and overall operation of the museum as it is transformed into a UK visitor destination. Albano will join Trent Park House of Secrets in June 2025.
Dr Giuseppe Albano said: “Trent Park House has heard (and overheard) a lot of stories in its time. As someone who’s always been passionate about historic houses and the tales they have to tell, I’m honoured to be taking on this role and look forward to opening Trent Park House as a museum and sharing its extraordinary history with everyone.”
The Marquess of Cholmondeley and Jason Charalambous, Co-Chairs, Trent Park Museum Trust, said the new appointment “brings a wealth of experience to the role, together with tremendous passion and enthusiasm for the tasks ahead.”
The Trust said its vision is to “showcase the site’s rich history, from Sir Philip Sassoon’s era to the covert operations against Hitler’s top military commanders, offering an educational experience for generations to come.”
