Nick Merriman

Nick Merriman (born 6 June 1960) is the director of the Manchester Museum in Manchester, England. As of 1 June 2017, Merriman is also acting as Interim Director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester. Previously Merriman worked at the Museum of London and University College, London. In April 2017 he was made Honorary Professor of Museum Studies in the University of Manchester. He is known for his contributions to the development of public archaeology and museum studies, and for influencing the heritage sector around issues of cultural diversity, sustainability and the future of collections. He is the chair of the Manchester museum.

Nick Merriman was born and brought up in Sutton Coldfield, and attended King Edward VI Grammar School in Edgbaston. From collecting old bottles stimulated by his father's collecting of antiques from the junk stores of Birmingham, he graduated to an interest in archaeology, excavating most weekends from the age of 16 at the local Roman site of Wall, Staffs. He studied Archaeology from 1979–82 at the University of Cambridge, attending St John's College, and spent the summers excavating at the site of Gars-Thunau in Lower Austria. From 1982–83 he undertook a postgraduate course in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, after which he returned to Cambridge to study for a PhD which examined social barriers to museum visiting. This was later published as 'Beyond The Glass Case: The Past, the Heritage and the Public' (1991).

Merriman began his career at the Museum of London in 1986 as Curator of Prehistory and subsequently in 1991, Merriman became the Head of Department of Early London History and Collections. During this time he led a project called ‘The Peopling of London’, which told the story of the capital’s cultural diversity from ancient times to the present through a ground-breaking exhibition and related activities in 1993. Merriman also authored and edited an accompanying book of the same title 1993.

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