Special Issue: Museums, Heritage and Capacity Building Introduction

After four decades working in the museum field, Lynne Teather is a retired professor of the Master's of Museum Studies, University of Toronto, outgoing Chair of the ICOM International Committee for the Training of Personnel (ICTOP) (2010-2016) and a Fellow of the Canadian Museums Association. She holds the first D.Phil. in Museum Studies from Leicester University (1984). Through her career, she kept one foot in academia, and one in the profession, providing advisory services, curriculum consultation, presentations and workshops in different locations in the world. She has produced histories of museums, but is also keen to follow emerging developments in the field from professional development to digital work. She now works as a consultant and is publishing several works on the history of museums and reflections on her experiences.