New leadership at V&A museums
Mark Roth to take over London institution while Philip Long will lead Dundee outpost



LONDON. The V&A today appointed Mark Roth, director general of the Dresden state art collections for the past ten years, as its new director. He will be taking over on 1 September for outgoing director Mark Jones, has led the museum since 2001 and is stepping down in June to become Master of St Cross College, Oxford.

Before he was director general of the Dresden collections, Roth served as director of the German Hygiene-Museum. He was also president of the German Museums Association from 1996 to 2003, and is currently a member of the advisory boards for the Deutsches Museum, Munich; the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Stuttgart; the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation/National Museums Berlin; and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin.

Paul Ruddock, chairman of the board of trustees at the V&A, said Roth “has a strong record of leading and managing complex arts organisations and brings experience of working in museums and cultural organisations around the world."

Meanwhile, the V&A also announced the appointment of a new director to head its planned outpost in Dundee, Scotland. Philip Long, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, will oversee the £45m project, set to open on a site in Craig Harbour in 2014.