Colin Simpson

Principal Museums Officer, Wirral Museums Service

Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

Slatey Road

Birkenhead

Wirral CH43 4UE

Ph: 0151 652 4177

colinsimpson[at]wirral.gov.uk.

Memberships (professional bodies)

Associate Museums Association

Career summary

1980-84 Keeper of Decorative Arts, Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead.

1984-86 Curator, Scarborough Art Gallery.

1986-90 Assistant Curator, Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead.

1990-2000 Curator, Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead & Wirral Museums.

2000-present Principal Museums Officer, Wirral Museums Service.

Areas of interest / research

Broad interest in field, research into late 17th/early 18th century as a long time ago.

Now looking especially at regionally important artists (Merseyside, North West and North Wales) and contemporary work