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Patrick Greene is the Chief Executive Officer of Museum Victoria, Australia (Melbourne Museum, Scienceworks, the Immigration Museum, and the Royal Exhibition Building) He is a member of the Council of Australian Museum Directors and Collectons Australia Network.
Prior to this appointment, Patrick was the Director of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. Other positions include; President of the Museums Association, Chairman of the European Museum Forum and the UK Expert Panel of the Heritage Lottery Fund: Museums, Archives and Libraries and a member of the English Heritage Industrial Archaeology Panel. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, of the Museums Association and of the Tourism Society. Patrick received an OBE in 1991 and an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Salford University in 1997.
Patrick has lectured at international conferences on topics such as museum management, science museums and contemporary technology, and tourism in urban regeneration and published numerous papers on these, and on monastic archaeology and the nineteenth-century trade in Baltic timber. He has contributed chapters to the Manual of Museum Planning and the Manual of Museum Management.
From 1971, he directed the excavations of Norton Priory in Cheshire which became the largest archaeological investigation of a medieval monastic site in Europe. The excavation formed the basis of his PhD thesis, awarded by Leeds University in 1986, a book published by Cambridge University Press in 1989 and Medieval Monasteries in 1992.
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