It is one of the perks of being director of the Museum of London that you get to pick what ephemera from the museum’s collection decorates your office. Sharon Ament has chosen a large reconstructed Roman amphora used to transport wine and oil, a Victorian map of London with a red post it note scribbled ‘you are here’ on it and a couple of moody oil paintings.

But the most important and well-used thing in her corner office overlooking a roundabout in the Barbican is distinctly modern. An easel with large boards showing computer generated images and architects’ plans for the next step in the life of the Museum of London: A move from its current, brutalist 1970s-era home near Moorgate into the derelict Smithfield market in Farringdon.