SAYING farewell to the Haslemere Educational Museum next month is its curator Angela Gill.
Miss Gill leaves for a new post in Kent after two-and-a-half years at the town's museum.
Engaged to be married, Miss Gill told The Herald this week that she was leaving for personal reasons to become education officer at the Powell Cotton Museum in Birchington, near the Kent coast.
"It is really sad to go but specialising in education is really the way forward for museums," she said.
Although Miss Gill will not see the climax of the huge refurbishment programme at the museum when it is officially unveiled this summer, she said: "It has been a fantastic experience and the staff and volunteers have been great to work with.
"Their professionalism has been wonderful and they are all very passionate about what they do.
"I have been really privileged to be part of it all and what the people of Haslemere are going to get is a fantastic museum when it re-opens," said Miss Gill.
Taking over from Miss Gill when she leaves at the end of May is Julia Tanner, who was a former curator at the museum from 1996 to1997.