Roger Took
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Roger Took is an art historian and museum curator who lived in London and Ireland. Throughout his career he ran several museums in England, is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society [1] and a former director of the Barbican Art Gallery. He attended Haileybury College, Sandhurst and the Courtauld Institute. In 1985 Took founded Artangel[2] an institution within the field of contemporary art. In December 2003 Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland, Roger Tooks detailed description of life on Russia's Kola Peninsula, was published in hardback [1]. This book was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.[3]