- Philippe de Montebello
Philippe de Montebello (born 1936) is a French-born museum curator. As of 2007 he is the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the longest-serving director in the institution's history and considered one of the best. - Thomas Hoving
Thomas P.F. Hoving (born January 15, 1931), is an American museum executive and consultant and the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. - Mikhail Piotrovsky
Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky is Director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. He was born in Yerevan on 9 November 1944 to Boris Piotrovsky, a notable Orientalist and future Director of the Hermitage. At the Leningrad University Mikhail Piotrovsky obtained a doctorate in Arabic linguistics. After graduating from that institution in 1967, he worked as an interpreter in Yemen and took part in archaeological exploration of the Caucasus. - Glenn D. Lowry
Glenn D. Lowry is the current Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. He became the sixth director of the Museum in 1995 and heads a staff or around 600 people. Born in 1954 in New York City and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts, Lowry received a B.A. degree (1976) magna cum laude from Williams College, Williamstown, and M.A. (1978) and Ph.D. (1982) degrees in the history of art from Harvard University. - Tim Flannery
Professor Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and global warming activist. Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and presently an adjunct professor at Macquarie University. His controversial views on shutting down conventional coal burning for electricity in the medium term are frequently cited in the media. - Robert Anderson
Dr Robert Geoffrey William Anderson, MA, DPhil was Director of the British Museum, London. Robert Anderson studied at St John's College, Oxford University. He has held posts at the Royal Scottish Museum (joining as Assistant Keeper in 1970), the Science Museum, London, the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh and at the British Museum, London (1992–2002). - Irina Antonova
Irina Aleksandrovna Antonova has been Director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow since 1961, making her the oldest director of a major art museum in the world. Among her many awards and decorations are the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Antonova was born on 20 March 1922 in Moscow. She studied under Boris Vipper at the Moscow University, graduating in 1945. Later that year she joined the staff of the Pushkin Museum, … - Kenneth Clark
Kenneth McKenzie Clark, Baron Clark of Saltwood, OM, CH, KCB, FBA (July 13, 1903 - May 21, 1983) was an English author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the most famous art historians of his generation. - Anne Hawley
Anne Hawley is the Norma Jean Calderwood Director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. She was appointed Director in 1989 after the departure of her predecessor Rollin Van N. Hadley in 1988. With museum attendance in decline, and both the building and its collection in need of repair, under Ms. Hawley's direction the museum entered a period of major restoration. - Charles Saumarez Smith
Dr. Charles Robert Saumarez Smith (born May 28, 1954 in Redlynch, England) is an English art historian and museum director. He is director of the National Gallery and the secretary-designate of the Royal Academy of Arts, having announced his resignation from the National Gallery in March 2007. He was formerly President of the Museums Association. In addition, he is a Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London. - Roy Strong
Sir Roy Strong (born August 23 1935) is an English art and cultural historian, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer. Roy Strong was born in Winchmore Hill, North London and attended Edmonton County School in Edmonton. He earned a first class honours degree in history at Queen Mary College, University of London. He then earned his Ph.D from the Warburg Institute, University of London and became a research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. - Mimi Gardner Gates
Mimi Gardner Gates is an American art historian who is Director of the Seattle Art Museum. She married William H. Gates, Sr., father of Bill Gates, in 1996. Formerly Mimi Gardner Neill, Gates has a B.A. in art history from Stanford University, a certificate with honors in Chinese language and culture from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes in Paris, a master's from the University of Iowa, and a Ph.D. in art history from Yale. - John Hayes
John Trevor Hayes <small>CBE FRSA</small> (January 21, 1929 – December 25, 2005) was a British art historian and museum director. He was an authority on the paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. Hayes read modern history at Keble College, Oxford and, in 1954, took a postgraduate diploma at the Courtauld Institute of Art. That same year he became assistant keeper of the London Museum in Kensington Palace, the forerunner to the modern Museum of London. - Sandy Nairne
Alexander Robert "Sandy" Nairne is a British museum director and writer and since 2002 Director of the National Portrait Gallery. The son of a senior civil servant, Nairne studied at University College, Oxford in the early 1970s and rowed for the Oxford University second crew Isis. Nairne came into contact with Nicholas Serota working at the Museum of Modern Art, … - Michael Levey
Sir Michael Vincent Levey LVO (born 1927) is a British art historian and former director of the National Gallery, London. Shortly after graduating from Exeter College, Oxford in 1950 he joined the National Gallery as an Assistant Keeper. In 1954, he married the novelist and critic Brigid Brophy. Levey's approach to art history was already considered backward-looking by the 1960s, … - Philip Hendy
Sir Philip Anstiss Hendy (27 September, 1900 - 6 September, 1980) was a British art curator who worked both in Britain and overseas, notably the United States. In 1923 he began his career in art administration as an Assistant Keeper and lecturer at the Wallace Collection in London, despite his having no formal training in art history. - Edward Poynter
Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet, KB (March 20 1836 - July 26 1919) was a British painter, designer, draughtsman and art administrator. The son of Ambrose Poynter, an architect, he was born in Paris. He was educated at Ipswich School and Brighton College before studying in London, in Rome (where he became a great admirer of Michelangelo) and with Charles Gleyre in Paris (where he met James McNeill Whistler). - Charles Holmes
Sir Charles John Holmes, KCVO (1868 - 1936) was a British painter, art critic and museum director. His writing on art combined theory with practice and he was an expert on the painting techniques of the Old Masters, from whose example he had learned to draw and paint. From 1889 to 1903 Holmes worked as a publisher's and printer's assistant in London, … - Michel Laclotte
Michel Laclotte is an art historian and museum director, specialising in 14th and 15th century French painting. His first role was as "inspecteur des musées" of the province, then as a professor at the Ecole du Louvre and as head conservator of the paintings department of the Louvre from 1966. Heavily involved in the "projet Grand Louvre", he was the first to hold the role of director (formerly known as Conservateur) of the Louvre between 1987 and 1995. - Martin Davies
Sir Martin Davies, KB, CBE, DLitt, FBA, FSA was a British museum director and civil servant. He first joined the staff of the National Gallery, the institution to which he was to devote his career, as an attaché in 1930. After being made Assistant Keeper in 1932 he called for improved research on the paintings in the collection, which would eventually come to fruition in the series of catalogues inaugurated by Davies and still being produced by the Gallery today. - Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon is a composer, singer, historian, and author specializing in African American oral, performance, and protest traditions. She is founder and artistic director of Sweet Honey in the Rock, for whom she has composed numerous works. She is a Distinguished Professor of History at American University, and Curator Emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History. - Augustus Daniel
Sir Augustus Moore Daniel, KB (1866 - 1950) was the Director of the National Gallery in London, England, for five years from January 1929 to December 1933. Like many directors of the National Gallery, he was a trustee of the Iveagh Bequest. - Charles Holroyd
Sir Charles Holroyd, KB (b. April 9 1861, Leeds - d. 1917) was an English artist and curator. - Boris Piotrovsky
Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky (February 1 (14), 1908, St. Petersburg-October 15, 1990, Leningrad) was a Soviet/Russian academician, historian-orientalist and archaeologist who studied Urartu, Scythia, and Nubia. Piotrovsky specialized in the history and archaeology of the Caucasus region. He is best-known as a key figure in the study of the Urartu civilization of the southern Caucasus. His 1938 excavations uncovered the Urartian fortress of Teishebaini. - Frederick McCoy
Sir Frederick McCoy, FRS, (1817 – 16 May, 1899) was a British palaeontologist and museum administrator, active in Australia. - Elizabeth Esteve-Coll
Dame Elizabeth Anne Loosemore Esteve-Coll (née Kingdon), DBE, BA, FRSA (b. 1938) is Chancellor of the University of Lincoln (Lincolnshire) and former vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia. - Harold McCracken
Harold McCracken (1894-1983) was an American author, Alaskan grizzly bear hunter, biplane stunt photographer, cinematographer, producer and museum director. McCracken was persuaded to transform an empty building donated by Gertrude Vanderbilt-Whitney in 1959 into the spectacular Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. "I wouldn't undertake it again for all the tea in China," he said, "but I was always interested in challenges. - Mikhail Artamonov
Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov ((in the village of Vygolovo, Tver guberniya - July 31 1972 in Leningrad) was a Soviet historian and archaeologist, who came to be recognized as the founding father of Khazar studies. Artamonov's scientific career was centered on the Leningrad University, where he was a professor since 1935 and the head of the chair of archeology since 1949. He researched Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements by the Don River, … - Ivan Vsevolozhsky
Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevolozhsky (1835-1909) was the Director of the Imperial Theatres in Russia from 1881 to 1898. A competent administrator, Vsevolozhsky ran the Imperial Theatres with a determination for excellence. In 1886, Vsevolozhsky initiated two major reforms for the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, namely the relocation of the Imperial Ballet and Opera from the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre (deemed unsafe by 1886) to the Mariinsky Theatre, … - Boris Legran
Boris Vasilievich Legran or Legrand was a Soviet revolutionary and politician who represented the interests of Soviet Russia in Armenia and Transcaucasia, beginning in 1920. In 1931 Legran was appointed to run the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad. During his time at the helm, Legran was busy with the "Socialist Reconstruction" of the museum. - Joseph Orbeli
Joseph Orbeli and architecture. This led to his appointment to the Hermitage Museum, which he would steer through the hardships of Stalin's purges and the Siege of Leningrad. Orbeli considerably enhanced the museum's holdings of Oriental art, making it one of the top oriental art museums in the world. No less potent was his role as head of the national school of Caucasus studies. - Halsey Ives
Halsey Cooley Ives (27 October 1847 - 5 May 1911) was the founder of the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts. The institution later became two distinct bodies; the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Washington University school of art which includes the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Ives was also a landscape painter, but is best remembered for the organization, administration, and popularization of art in Saint Louis, Missouri. - Alwin Karl Haagner
Dr Alwin Karl Haagner (1880-1962) was a South African ornithologist. Haagner worked in the Transvaal Museum from 1906, where he started the museum's great ornithological collection. Haagner left the museum in 1911, was succeeded by Austin Roberts, and became director of the Pretoria Zoological Gardens. He took an interest in the Kruger National Park and played an important role in drafting the National Parks Acts of 1926. - Josephine Love
Dr. Love was a member of the National Medical Association, Wayne County Medical Society, the Detroit Medical Society, Michigan State Medical Society, Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and Sigma Pi Phi Boule, a national honor society. - Lynn Kimsey
- Mary Kopco
I'm a mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, and museum director who has had a life time of memorable experiences. My goal in life is to make a difference. I value honesty, integrity, ethics, and kindness. I am a pacifist, environmentalist, liberal, and pro-choice. - Jessica McCanse
I had a giant baby!!! Seriously. A 10-pounder. Yeah, it's been 18 months, but I'm still recovering. Pics of the big hairy-eared feller can be found. - Pamela
My Name Is Pamela Kruse-Buckingham. - Bob
I live in the coolest place and have the neatest job. Most people only dream of coming to Key West, Florida. I am lucky enough to call it my home. It's a little town of only 25,000 souls yet because we have 3 or 4 million tourists we have all the advantages of a BIG city. Live theater, symphony, pops, opera (if that's your thing), museums and lots of events. Breath taking sunrises and sunsets and surrounded by the sea. - Bethany
First of all, I don't live in Haverhill, I live in Bradford. There's a bridge between us for a very good reason. Second of all, I don't look anything like that picture, except inside my own head. I'm more of a plump housewife type these days, being 7 months pregnant and all. Still, I do occasionally sit around my office staring over my shoulder, filled with ennui with no bra on. I have no time for ennui at home.
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