We want to talk about who are those coming up from the ranks and are they prepared to take over these leadership positions.

A person who wants to really get a grounding in museum work and see the whole gamut, really gets that in a smaller institution simply because there is not the manpower, and so you have to deal with it all.

Everybody probably has an area of personal interest that draws them to a certain training ... but I think, particularly in many smaller history museums, you do have to be a generalist.

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

So I haven't seen any of the parties coming forward to say that they are prepared to fund such a thing, so we are talking about a theoretical issue at this period.