Image: L-R Cindy Sughrue OBE, Frankie Kubicki (Charles Dickens Museum)
Current Deputy Director to become Director of the Museum in Dickens’s only surviving London home in March 2025, as the Museum celebrates its centenary.
The current Deputy Director of London’s Charles Dickens Museum will become its Director later this year.
Frankie Kubicki, who joined the museum 8 years ago as a curator will become Director of the Museum in March 2025.
She follows Cindy Sughrue, who will leave the Museum at the end of March, having served for nearly ten years.
Sandra Lynes Timbrell, Chair of the Museum’s Board of Trustees, called the next director the “standout candidate”.
Timbrell added: “We are grateful to outgoing Director Cindy Sughrue for her dedication and leadership; she transformed the Museum and, during Covid in particular, worked tirelessly to ensure its continued success. We look forward to working with Frankie when she takes up the role in March 2025 and wish Cindy well for her return to Scotland.”
Kubicki said: “It has been a real pleasure to work with Cindy over the past eight years, during which time, and due to her impressive leadership, the Museum has become increasingly vibrant and vital. I am looking forward to continuing the Museum’s progression as it celebrates its centenary and working with its dedicated staff and Board to lead the Museum into a new chapter.”
Sughrue said Kubicki “has played a major role in the success of the Museum, from developing our public programmes to assisting with rebuilding a strong staff team as we recovered from the impact of the pandemic. I am delighted that Frankie will be here to take forward the legacy that she helped to shape.”
