About Alice

Alice has worked independently since 2000 and her clients have ranged from small museums to national museums and advisory bodies.

Before establishing her consultancy she founded and managed a highly successful department at the Science Museum, managing collections-related information and making it available on-line and in the Museum's galleries. Aimed at a wide range of learners in formal and non-formal education, much of this work was conducted in association with educators. This unit built on her successful implementation of collections management software across the Museum’s five sites and the migration of major datasets from the previous system.

The software used for this project was the result of a project to specify and procure a system on behalf of eight large or national museums which Alice joined the museum to co-manage in 1994.

Prior to this she had worked with the Museum Documentation Association (now MDA) where she compiled and edited the first edition of SPECTRUM: The UK Museum Documentation Standard. This professional benchmark is now in its third edition and is recognised and implemented across the UK and overseas. Its development involved establishing a consensus across the museum community and Alice worked directly with representatives of over 70 museums and galleries to achieve this.

Her work at MDA followed eight years at the Victoria and Albert Museum as Documentation Manager for the Collections as well as working in the National Art Library and in the museum’s IT department.

You can download Alice’s CV here [Adobe PDF format]

Outside work, Alice enjoys drawing and painting (messily), running (slowly) and has recently learned to skate (painfully). At other times she is a parent governor and when not managing homework, sleepovers and pocket money, can occasionally be found on ebay, iTunes and the sofa.