Come up Sir Tristram—V&A director is knighted in UK New 12 months Honours – The Artwork Newspaper

The director of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Tristram Hunt, has obtained a knighthood within the King’s UK New Years Honours listing for 2026. Hunt, who has been in publish since 2017, is honoured for “companies to museums”; the “mental and cultural historian” (his personal description posted on LinkedIn) is vocal on points reminiscent of implementing a vacationer levy to assist assist the UK’s cultural infrastructure. Earlier this yr, he oversaw the opening of the V&A East Storehouse in Stratford.

The curator Ekow Eshun, the previous director of the Institute of Modern Arts in London, baggage an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire). The artwork historian Marcia Pointon, professor emerita within the historical past of artwork on the College of Manchester, was additionally awarded an OBE. The Edinburgh-based cultural heritage skilled Janet Blake and Jo Quinton-Tulloch, the director of the Nationwide Science and Media Museum in Bradford, had been additionally awarded OBEs.

Susan Bowers, director of the Pilgrim Belief which focuses on preserving the UK’s heritage, was made an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire). Hilary McGrady, the director-general of the Nationwide Belief, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 2020 McGrady commissioned a controversial report on the belief’s hyperlinks to slavery and colonialism. The awards are handed out twice a yr—at New 12 months after which once more in June on the monarch’s official birthday.