Nicholas Cullinan is appointed director of the British Museum

Nicholas Cullinan, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, has been appointed to lead the British Museum, taking on an array of challenges at the world's oldest national museum after a theft scandal and the discovery of serious problems in its governance.

Cullinan has previously served as a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and at Tate Modern, where he worked on the exhibition Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs.

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