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.

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

John Beckerson, Senior Curator
John is responsible for coordinating the object collections as a whole and has specialist responsibilities for the engine section of the Power Hall, the Electricity Gallery and Gas Gallery. He also deals with enquiries regarding steam engines, internal-combustion engines, hydraulic power, electricity generation, the gas supply industry and coal mining. 

Nick Forder, Curator (Transport)
Nick is responsible for the Air & Space Hall and the Rail Transport section of the Power Hall. He also deals with enquiries regarding air, rail and road transport. 

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.

Susie Elliott, Assistant Curator (Community History)
Susie 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.

Catherine Rushmore, Trainee Curator (Science)
Catherine 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.

Kathrin Schindler, Collections Centre Facilitator
Kathrin runs the enquiry service in the Collections Centre Welcome Area and is the first point of call for Collections Centre enquiries. Kathrin 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.

Fran Clarke, Collections Care Assistant
Fran is a conservator who assists with the care of the Museum's object and archive collections.

Lizzie Llabres, Collections Administrator
Lizzie provides administrative support to all staff in the Department and maintains the Explore MoSI and Collections sections of the website.

Sallyann Browning, Oral History Project Officer
Sallyann is responsible for coordinating and collecting oral histories for our HLF-funded 'Connecting with People's Histories' project.

Anna Rhodes, Oral History Volunteer Coordinator
Anna is responsible for recruiting, supervising and supporting volunteer interviewers for the 'Connecting with People's Histories' project.