Lynn Scarff is the recently appointed Director of the National Museum of Ireland and will take up the position in May 2018. She studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, specialising in zoology and natural history. Following a number of years based in Ballymun during the major regeneration project there and working as an environmental education consultant, Lynn returned to Trinity to take on a role in the initial development team of Science Gallery Dublin. Over eleven years at Science Gallery she developed a programme of compelling cultural experiences that explored the boundaries of art and science and connected with a target audience of 15 - 25 year olds. She was appointed Director of Science Gallery in 2014 and was an integral member of the team that established the Global Science Gallery Network. Lynn's research work focuses on non formal learning settings and the opportunities presented by museums and cultural spaces to engage young people, with a particular focus on under represented audiences. She has presented and written on these themes both in education, museum practice and communication journals globally. Her research and practice work has been funded through competitive grants awarded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Wellcome Trust in the UK and the European Commission through Horizon 2020 and Creative Europe calls. She holds an MSc in Science Communications and in 2016 was awarded a National Arts Strategies Kresge Fellowship completed over one year at Harvard, Michigan Ross and Berkeley Business Schools in the USA. Lynn has significant expertise in programme development, strategy, brand development, marketing and communications, financial planning, fundraising, HR, operations and recruitment within an award winning art-science space with in excess of 3 million visitors in ten years.