"The director of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Tristram Hunt, has received a knighthood in the King's UK New Years Honours list for 2026. Hunt, who has been in post since 2017, is honoured for "services to museums"; the "intellectual and cultural historian" (his own description posted on LinkedIn) is vocal on issues such as implementing a tourist levy to help support the UK's cultural infrastructure. Earlier this year, he oversaw the opening of the V&A East Storehouse in Stratford."
"The curator Ekow Eshun, the former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, bags an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire). The art historian Marcia Pointon, professor emerita in the history of art at the University of Manchester, was also awarded an OBE. The Edinburgh-based cultural heritage expert Janet Blake and Jo Quinton-Tulloch, the director of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, were also awarded OBEs."
Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London since 2017, received a knighthood in the King's 2026 New Year Honours for services to museums. Hunt has advocated for measures such as a tourist levy to support the UK's cultural infrastructure and opened the V&A East Storehouse in Stratford earlier in 2026. Curator Ekow Eshun and art historian Marcia Pointon were awarded OBEs, alongside Janet Blake and Jo Quinton-Tulloch. Susan Bowers received an MBE, and National Trust director-general Hilary McGrady was made a CBE. Honours are conferred twice yearly, at New Year and the monarch's birthday in June.
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