The museum, which has been beset by a scandal about the suspected theft of 1,800 artefacts from its collection, appointed the National Portrait Gallery head, Nicholas Cullinan, as its new director in late March. According to sources close to the process, the trustees on the selection panel had been instructed by No 10 to supply Sunak with two names, from which he, or his representative, would choose the new director.
There's been an increasing politicisation of the nominations to the boards of museums and galleries, said Mark Jones, the museum's interim director. That seems to me to be a shame because I think the criteria for selection should be their suitability for being on the board and the contribution they can make to the museum or gallery.
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