Museums & Heritage Consultant

Lynn Podmore

Welcome

I enable museums and heritage sites to thrive by helping them to develop and enhance the visitor experience. I achieve this through research, understanding audience needs and utilising interpretive tools. I foster an approach so that visitors can enjoy and learn. I also enjoy strengthening the ambitions of the museum team by ensuring realistic policies, plans, and workforce development is in tune with the strategic vision. I have a soft spot for ancient, industrial and social history and feel fortunate to have worked in a variety of museum and heritage settings, on various projects, throughout my career.

Along with a down to earth disposition, I am solution driven with an eye for detail. I bring creativity, experience, research and planning skills to my work. I am based in Chester and work at home or in and around North West England and North Wales. If you would like to work together, please get in touch.


SERVICES

The Museum and Heritage Services offered are wide ranging based on experience and can aid the development of your organisation, workforce or visitor offer. These include writing policies and plans in relation to: Museum Accreditation; Forward Plans; Activity Plans; Audience Development, Interpretation; Volunteer Management; Consultation; Learning programmes; Research; Access Audits and Workshop Development.

I had the pleasure of working with Lynn on both a grant funded project and as a consultant to our Heritage Team. She led on the development of a new audio trail at Ruthin Gaol Museum, devised an Interpretation Strategy, completed a staff review and supported on collections management. She advised on best practice and mentored staff through finding practical solutions. Lynn has proven to be thoughtful, insightful, creative, hardworking and knowledgeable - she also managed to engage our teams in her work and they were enthused by her presence.

Heritage Manager, Denbighshire Heritage Services