Museums & Exhibitions


He has a great knowledge of the maritime museum sector, having visited and made links with most of those in the United Kingdom, as well as the most important in the United States and Europe. He has acted at maritime history consultant to Hampshire County Council. In 2015 he curated a highly successful exhibition at Chatham Historic dockyard on 250 years of HMS Victory. He has a deep knowledge of museum collections. He is editor of the Manual of Maritime Curatorship
Having co-written Ship Models, Their Purpose and Development and other
books, and worked with the National Maritime Museum Collection for many years,
he is an expert on the identification and interpretation of ship models
Part of the original 1991 display in the Wooden Walls gallery at Chatham. It lasted for more than twenty years before being updated