News: The River and Rowing Museum at Henley

First Director Appointed for The River and Rowing Museum at Henley

July 1994

Jane Bowen has been appointed the first Director of the River and Rowing Museum at Henley. The museum will be built on Mill Meadows, Henley-on-Thames and plans to open in 1996.

Mrs. Bowen, a graduate of St. Anne's College Oxford, comes to the new museum from Cogges Manor Farm Museum at Witney where she was the development officer. A graduate in metallurgy and the science of materials, she worked for the Science Museum in South Kensington, London for seven years and was a member of the team that set up the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. She has also been employed writing science entries for the Concise Oxford Dictionary and was Keeper of Photography and Oral History for Oxfordshire County Council. She emerged from three rounds of interviews and a total of 97 applicants for the Henley job. Jane said "I am looking forward to the challenge of setting up a new museum with exhibitions on all aspects of the River Thames, Henley and rowing."

The River and Rowing Museum Foundation are in the final stages of planning the construction of the building. Meanwhile Mrs. Bowen has put together a small team who will be responsible for ensuring that there is plenty to see when the museum opens in Olympic year.

Christopher Dodd, the Guardian newspaper's rowing correspondent and Regatta Magazine editor who is the author of several rowing histories has been retained to assemble collections and displays and Catherine Saker, late of the Musical Instruments Deparment at Sotheby's, as Assistant to the Director is setting up the museum's temporary office in Henley.

Catherine Saker
The River and Rowing Museum at Henley
51 Station Road
Henley-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
RG9 1AT
England

Tel. +44 1491 410909

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