Douglas Gilmore

Background

About Douglas Gilmore

Douglas was appointed Managing Director of London Museum Docklands in 2022, where he has devised and is delivering a three-year strategy to grow the audience in terms of visitors and diversity, develop the content and deliver a smarter operation. Having reintroduced ticketed exhibitions, generated commercial income from existing activity and achieved two consecutive years of record visitor numbers, he is leading the museum in collaborative projects, with the GLA and the Heritage Trust of Antigua and Barbuda, to increase its national and international profile. 2024 saw the commissioning of a Masterplan, by architects Haworth Tompkins, to define a capital investment programme to improve the building for all visitors. Previous appointments include Commercial Director at the Ashmolean Museum and Trading Director for National Gallery Company Ltd, after a career in retail that included international franchising, format development and operations. He has extensive non-executive experience within social enterprise, arts and educational charities and museums, having sat on boards at Bootstrap Charity, WAC Arts, Museum of the Home, Museum of London and currently Liverpool Biennial. He is a Member of the Association and alumnus of the National Youth Theatre.