Museum Director - Operations

Steve Burt outside Royal Armouries Museum Leeds

Steven Burt is Museum Director – Operations for the Royal Armouries.

He is tasked with delivering a successful, visitor-focused, educational heritage attraction, maximising quality of service and display.

Born and bred in Leeds, he is well known for his public lectures and books on the history of the city. He is Vice President of the Thoresby Society. Steven played a significant role in the building of City Learning Centres in Leeds, a key part of the government’s Excellence in Cities initiative.

He is a former Area Manager for Education and continues to play an active role as a governor of South Leeds High School. For three years he worked on the creation of the Thackray Medical Museum which opened with £3million of HLF funding in 1997.

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The Tudors

A weekend of Tudor themed activities.

Everyone learns about the Tudors at school but the Royal Armouries Museum brings the Tudor’s to life.

24 January

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Cleanliness is next to...

It takes one year for all the objects on display in the museum in Leeds to be cleaned by the Conservation Department.

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