Five pages dedicated to the Director of the British Museum, Dr Nicholas Cullinan in the Times Saturday Magazine.

Alice Thomson writes: "The new director of the British Museum has a daunting in-tray but this is his dream job and he hopes to be at the BM for this museum's 300th anniversary, which is in 2053!"

To read the article in The Times Magazine, follow the link here.

We wish Dr Cullinan success and also continue to look for his support towards the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.

In the Times Magazine article, Dr Cullinan refers to the sculptures, still mainly divided between two great museum's of the world, as the British Museum's 'talismanic objects'. Given the fate of those that did remove them from the Parthenon when Greece had no voice and consequently curated them in the British Museum, here's hoping that reunification of these sculptures is still in the vision of the reimagined, twenty-first century, British Museum.

The future, Dr Cullinan is convinced, is in collaboration. He also acknowledges that the BM cannot de-accession, as that needs an act of parliament and he suggests that those that want items returned must lobby parliament to get the act changed.

Dr Cullinan is comfortable with loaning items and will do what it takes to look after the world's greatest collection as he stresses that there are only 15 cases of contested groups or objects. These include the Parthenon Marbles: "Plans are taking shape. We'd love an innovative partnership with Greece where we would lend things and they would lend things back, and we can share knowledge and opportunity rather than debate ownership."

And we all know, Greece's ask is wholly justified.