Marilyn Scott
Director of The Lightbox
Marilyn Scott
Marilyn is the Director of the award winning UK Gallery and Museum which opened in a new architect designed building in September 2007.
The Lightbox, an independent museum managed as a charitable trust, is winner of The Art Fund Prize the largest gallery prize in the UK. Marilyn has managed the project from concept design through to opening and now operates the gallery with an exciting exhibition and events programme.
She has spent all her career in museums, galleries and heritage organisations. She has experience with national museums and has worked for both the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum where she undertook a curatorial role and also worked as Head of Corporate Affairs where she pioneered corporate entertaining in museum and heritage settings. She has also worked for The National Trust as a Property Manager.
She set up the Museums and Heritage Masters programme in The Business School at The University of Greenwich and is now visiting lecturer on the City University MA programme in Arts and Heritage Management.
More recently she has worked in the independent and not for profit sector and has been a consultant on a number of new museum developments. Her particular strengths are fundraising, audience development and interpretation.
Marilyn has extensive consultancy experience and has worked as an adviser to The British Council on a number of overseas museum projects. In 2006 Marilyn was part of a British Council lead consultancy team who visited Taiwan to advise museums there on future audience development and income generating strategies. In 2009 she visited Georgia to advise the government on the re stabilisation of the museum sector following their split from the USSR. She is a member of the Heritage Lottery Fund panel.
The Lightbox, an independent museum managed as a charitable trust, is winner of The Art Fund Prize the largest gallery prize in the UK. Marilyn has managed the project from concept design through to opening and now operates the gallery with an exciting exhibition and events programme.
She has spent all her career in museums, galleries and heritage organisations. She has experience with national museums and has worked for both the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum where she undertook a curatorial role and also worked as Head of Corporate Affairs where she pioneered corporate entertaining in museum and heritage settings. She has also worked for The National Trust as a Property Manager.
She set up the Museums and Heritage Masters programme in The Business School at The University of Greenwich and is now visiting lecturer on the City University MA programme in Arts and Heritage Management.
More recently she has worked in the independent and not for profit sector and has been a consultant on a number of new museum developments. Her particular strengths are fundraising, audience development and interpretation.
Marilyn has extensive consultancy experience and has worked as an adviser to The British Council on a number of overseas museum projects. In 2006 Marilyn was part of a British Council lead consultancy team who visited Taiwan to advise museums there on future audience development and income generating strategies. In 2009 she visited Georgia to advise the government on the re stabilisation of the museum sector following their split from the USSR. She is a member of the Heritage Lottery Fund panel.