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David Fleming has been Director, National Museums Liverpool, since 2001. During his time there, he has completed major projects including the opening of the Slavery Museum, the Museum of Liverpool, and the project Into the Future, which involved the refurbishment of the Walker Art Gallery and World Museum. Before that he was Director, Tyne and Wear Museums for 11 years, and before that Principal Keeper at Hull Museums. David has spoken at many international conferences and published widely on museum management and leadership, city history museums, social inclusion, and human rights.

Barry Lord

Museums seem to be about objects, but they are really about people. Museums seem to be buildings with things in them, but they are really means of communication between people – people of all countries, people of the distant past, and the people of future generations. The three-dimensional objects in museum collections are the ways in which people of all times and places communicate with each other.