Janet Barnes, CBE is a British curator and former museum director.
Barnes was the Honorary Curator of the Turner Museum of Glass at the University of Sheffield from 1979 to 1999.
[3][1] Barnes was the CEO of York Museums Trust from its founding in 2002 to November 2015.
[5] Barnes is a Director of John Ruskin's educational charity the Guild of St George, a Trustee of the Anthony Shaw Collection Trust and a member of the Challenge Committee for the DCMS Museum Review.
[7] Barnes was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to museums.