Dr Hugh Maguire is the director of the Hunt Museum. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, he has been director of the Museum since December 2009. He previously lectured in Art & Architecture History at the University of Otago and the University of Auckland in New Zealand where he lectured on Renaissance & Baroque Art. He worked most recently as Museum and Archives Officer for the Heritage Council where he was responsible for the delivery of the Council's policy on a Museums Standards Programme for Ireland. He has a keen interest in material heritage and the use of material culture as educational and interpretational tool for understanding past cultures.