Dr Megan Barford is Curator of Cartography at Royal Museums Greenwich. Her research has focused on nineteenth-century British Admiralty charts, charting and navigation, and twentieth-century map collecting. In 2017 she received an Art Fund New Collecting Award to build a collection of contemporary cartography concerned with forced migration. She loves talking with people about maps and different ways of reading them. Despite her extensive navigational knowledge, she has never navigated a ship or boat!
