Meet the Committee! Part 3

Now onto part 3 of 3, the remaining people on our exciting new committee!

Priya - Education and Outreach Ambassador

What's your favourite museum?

• The Zeng Xiaolian Museum of Art . It’s inspired by plants and nature, and the building is beautiful and peaceful, matching with the artwork. I love how it connects art with nature and local culture.

What are you most looking forward to about your time at Museum Studies Leicester?

• Learning museum management and visiting more museums.

What's something you would like to achieve on the MAGS committee?

• I like to connect museums with the seasons or festivals, leading people to participate and linking the activities with museum education.

Tell us a bit about your professional career so far!

• I helped with artwork export and insurance, and I’ve done artwork guiding for visitors.

Emmanuel - Wellbeing Officer & Outreach Ambassador

What's your favourite museum?

• Nigerian National Museum, Lagos, Nigeria

What inspires you to work in the heritage sector?

• Museums are safe spaces where cultural heritage and identities are preserved, reimagined, and shared.

What are you most looking forward to about your time at Museum Studies Leicester?

• Discovering a newer part of myself, working with new people and new minds; collaboration, exploring museums around Europe and educating people about the space

Annica - Wellbeing Officer & Inclusion Ambassador

What's your favourite museum?

• The Imperial War Museum, London

What inspires you to work in museums?

• Each museum has their own personality.

What are you most looking forward to about your time at Museum Studies Leicester and in MAGS?

• Figuring out where I belong and what I should do. The museum is a place I love, and through MAG’s events, I hope more people will change their stereotypes about museums.

Rose - MAGS Mag Editor

What's your favourite museum?

• The National Anzac Centre in Western Australia

What are you most looking forward to about your time at Museum Studies Leicester?

• I’m really looking forward to the objects and collections module as I’d love to learn more about conservation.

Tell us a bit about your professional career so far!

• I’ve spent the past 8 years living in Australia and working in theatre, for the ballet and opera!

Cici - MAGS Mag Editor

What's your favourite museum?

• Wuhou Shrine Museum in Chengdu, China

Tell us a bit about your professional career so far!

• I was inspired by my experience as a museum volunteer, where I interacted with a large number of visitors at an international museum. This role allowed me to communicate with people across diverse age groups, genders, and cultural backgrounds, and to respond to a wide range of visitor inquiries. While I was particularly interested in the history and culture of the Three Kingdoms period, I also found great joy in exploring the unknown.

What inspires you to work in the heritage sector?

• My curiosity extends broadly, and I see museums as places where knowledge is carefully arranged for people to experience, reflect upon, and feel. To me, a museum is not confined to buildings or exhibitions—it exists everywhere, in the stories, objects, and ideas we share.

What's something you would like to achieve on the MAGS committee?

• I would love to join trips that explore different kinds of museums with fellow “museum fans,” exchanging ideas during and after the journey. If such opportunities do not yet exist, I would be eager to organize one myself, whether as part of school activities or magazine events.

Benjamin - MAGS Mag Chief Editor

What's your favourite museum?

• My favourite museum is London Museum Docklands, nestled in the historical industrial heart of the city's East End. I love their topics and themes, they tell important stories and their exhibitions are often really immersive!

What inspires you to work in museums?

• I’m most interested in co-curation and decolonisation, which have seen really significant development in recent decades, and which can both have really meaningful impacts on different kinds of communities.

What's something you would like to achieve on the MAGS committee?

• I'm really keen to get as many people involved in our events as possible, mixing and making connections. I can’t wait to share and celebrate our stories within and beyond the MA Museum Studies cohort!!

That's it! Glad to meet you — we're all really looking forward to getting to know you better through our MAGS events. Keep following along to read some exciting stories!

Many thanks to our brilliant photographer and Social Media Officer, Jimmy, for the excellent headshots.