Joanne Hamilton joined Cambridge Museum of Technology as Front of House Team Leader in April 2022.
Joanne graduated from the University of Leicester with a BA in History and went on to take an MA in Cultural Heritage Management at the University of York. She is passionate about creating museum environments that are welcoming to everyone, and that can be engaged with by all.
Originally from West Yorkshire, Joanne has worked and volunteered at several museums and heritage sites across the country, covering a range of areas from collections management to oral history projects. Most recently, she led the Visitor Welcome Team at the National Coal Mining Museum for England.
Joanne will be leading and developing the Museum’s front-of-house team. As an independent museum, Cambridge Museum of Technology relies on volunteers to facilitate public openings, manage events, and support site maintenance.
In her first month Joanne has overseen Front of House for the museum’s popular Steam Days, and facilitated several private-hire events hosted at the museum:
Joanne is looking forward to prepare a programme of forthcoming events for local communities, museum enthusiasts and tourists to Cambridge.
Joanne is particularly keen to get opinions on the future of volunteering at the museum. If you are interested in volunteering, please do check our volunteer page or contact the museum.
Catherine Rooney has joined the Museum staff on a part-time basis to take on some administrative duties following the handover from long-serving former Curator Pam Halls.
Originally from Durham, Catherine came to Cambridge in 1995 to study at the University and never left. She has a Ph.D. in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic which looked at the surviving manuscripts of Gerald of Wales, a twelfth-century author, work which gave her a lifelong interest in old books.
Catherine is also a member of our dedicated Print Team who provide printing demonstrations to our visitors. Currently, she and the team are working sorting and cataloguing the typecases and picture plates in the Print Room and plan to use them for various projects in the future.
Photos:
Header: Sunset at the museum, June 2021. The Willcox Collective, commissioned by Cambridge Museum of Technology. Creative Commons licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Gallery: Bimble Books, Keep Britain Tidy, Cambridge Museum of Technology.