“I believe that you should be an authority about the museum that you run, and actually know about the objects in your care – I am a bit old fashioned in this respect. There is a certain tendency today for museum directors to act like the managing director of a company, and leave the detailed knowledge to the curators. That’s not my style.”
Tim Knox, director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, as told to Alexander Gilmour. Part of a series on how arts professionals see their work in the Financial Times, 14 August 2012
