Justine Boussard FRSA is a curator and storyteller with fifteen years’ experience working in the heritage and public art sectors with clients include the Design Museum, Crafts Council, Jane Withers and North East Museums. She founded the Amateur Ancestor Project to explore the role of museums in addressing the climate crisis from a cultural perspective. Through her programmes, participants from all sectors and walks of life get to expand their sense of time, reflect on how worldviews shape the way they live, think beyond silos and rediscover their sense of agency.

An inspiring speaker on the role of Culture and Heritage in Climate Action, she curated the Bodies of Water Symposium on Regenerative Art Practice with UP Projects (Liverpool Biennial 2025). She has delivered extensive training to museum staff on environmental interpretation and storytelling including for Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, the Bowes Museum as well as through Museum Development Midlands (in partnership with Climate Museum UK colleagues.)

She is a fellow of the RSA, a graduate of the V&A/RCA MA in History of Design, and a member of Climate Museum UK. The Amateur Ancestor project has been supported by grants from the Arts Council (Develop Your Creative Practice grant 2022), Natural History Museum and Creative UK (2024). It features in Rob Hopkins’ book How To Fall in Love with The Future in the ‘Learning from the Pioneers’ chapter.

After years in London, she happily relocated to the North East of England where she dips in the North Sea as often as she can.