Daniel Stoker

Daniel Stoker is an early career museum professional who is currently Assistant Keeper of History at North East Museums. Daniel is also part of the curatorial team at Discovery Museum in Newcastle, with interests in social history, human stories, and community engagement. Daniel worked as Curatorial Assistant on Discovery Museum’s landmark climate exhibition Steam to Green.

Daniel Stoker will be speaking at the Green Museums Summit 2026 :

Reinterpreting industrial collections through the lens of the climate crisis

How can you be an advocate against the climate crisis when your collection represents part of the problem? And how do you explore such a potentially heavy and nuanced topic to a primary audience of families and children? These were just some of the major challenges that were faced in curating Discovery Museum’s landmark 2024 exhibition “Steam to Green: A North East Energy Revolution”.