Jean M. Franczyk will become the new Director at Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, (MOSI) following the merger between MOSI and National Museum of Science & Industry (NMSI).
Jean is currently the Director of Learning at NMSI, where she leads a team of over 120 who reach more than 1.25 million participants a year across the Science Museum, National Railway Museum and National Media Museum through a variety of learning programmes.
She's also on NMSI’s Audience Research and Advocacy team, which is core to the development of all major galleries and exhibitions.
Jean will take up her new role in February. Commenting on her appointment, she said: “MOSI is a great museum in a great city. The stories we can share are powerful and internationally significant.
“There’s no better place to tell the story of how science and industry created the first truly modern city or how the science and industry of Manchester continues to influence the world today.
“I relish the opportunity of working with the team at MOSI and together ensuring that the museum evolves as creatively and with as much innovation as Manchester itself.”
Ian Blatchford, Director of NMSI, said: “Jean is a highly respected colleague, both within NMSI and the wider museum community, and I am confident that she will bring her huge energy, insight and skill to this new role.
“Jean has a wealth of experience and I am sure the museum will flourish under her leadership.”
Following a highly successful £9 million redevelopment, which reopened in January 2011, MOSI is on track for over 800,000 visitors through the doors this financial year (since April 2011).
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