Sharon Heal

Sharon Heal is the Director of the Museums Association, a campaigning membership body that promotes the social value of museums. Over the past five years the Museums Association has become a campaigning organisation with a vision for socially engaged museums at the heart of their communities. Its flagship campaign, Museums Change Lives, supports museums to enhance health and wellbeing; create better places for us to live and work; and provide space for reflection and debate. 

Sharon regularly comments on museums and cultural policy in the UK; speaks at conferences and events in the UK and internationally; and has published extensively, including contributing chapters for Museums and Public Value (Carol A. Scott, Ashgate) and Museum Activism (Robert Janes and Richard Sandell, Routledge). 

Sharon lectures on the history of museums, museum ethics, museums and social impact and museum activism. 

She is the Chair of the Museum of Homelessness.