Museum of Science and Industry

This brief description of the responsibilities of Collections staff should help you to identify the right person to contact if you wish to make an enquiry or an offer.

Pauline Webb, Collections Manager
Pauline leads the Collections Department and deals with enquiries regarding collections policies and procedures.

Jan Hargreaves, Senior Archivist
Jan is responsible for our archive collections, which include the Electricity Council, Ferranti and Factory Records Archives, and the public archives service provided in the Collections Centre.

Jan Shearsmith, Archivist
Jan assists in developing and cataloguing our archive collections and in providing public access to the archive collections. 

Nick Forder, Senior Curator
Nick is responsible for co-ordinating the object collections as a whole and has specialist responsibility for the Air & Space Hall and the Road and Rail Transport sections of the Power Hall.

Adam Daber, Curator (Industry)
Adam is responsible for the Textiles Gallery and Connecting Manchester Gallery.  He also deals with enquiries regarding printing, papermaking and machine tools.

Meg McHugh, Curator (Community History)
Meg is responsible for the Making of Manchester and Underground Manchester galleries, the First Class Booking Hall, Liverpool and Manchester Railway Exhibition, The Warehouse for the World audio-visual show and for the domestic appliance sections of the Electricity Gallery and Gas Gallery. She also deals with enquiries regarding the food industry.

Susie Elliott, Assistant Curator (Science)
Susie is responsible for the Manchester Science Gallery, Collected Cameras Gallery, the Computing in Manchester section of the Electricity Gallery and the replica Baby computer. She also deals with enquiries relating to the telegraphy and telephony collections.

Catherine Rushmore, Assistant Curator (Energy)
Catherine is responsible for the Electricity Gallery, Gas Gallery and the Engines section of the Power Hall. She also deals with enquiries relating to coal mining.

Kate Hampton, Collections Centre Facilitator
Kate runs the enquiry service in the Collections Centre Welcome Area and is the first point of call for Collections Centre enquiries. Kate also handles general enquiries about the collections.

Rachel Hammond, Collections Care Officer
Rachel is a conservator and is responsible for the care of the Museum's object and archive collections, including their environment and storage.