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  • Resignations from Museum (55 Results)

    Announced Last Day Name & Position Organization Comments Reason
    Feb. 28
    2018    		 David Platzker
    Curator     		Museum of Modern Art
    USA    		 Resigned
    Mar. 22
    2018    		 Michael Quinn
    President     		American Revolution
    Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Apr. 17
    2018    		 Natasha Cica
    CEO     		Heide Museum of Modern
    Art
    Australia    		 Resigned
    Jun. 01
    2018    		 Veronica Milton
    CFO     		DuSable Museum of African
    American History
    USA    		 Resigned
    Jun. 13
    2018    		 Jul. 01
    2018    		 Juanita Moore
    CEO & President     		Charles H. Wright Museum
    USA    		 Retired
    Jun. 26
    2018    		 Jul. 10
    2018    		 Nancy Halverson
    CEO     		The Children's Museum
    of The Upstate
    USA    		 Resigned
    Jul. 03
    2018    		 Karen Coltrane
    CEO & President     		EdVenture Children's
    Museum in Columbia
    USA    		 will become CEO at Leadership Center for Excellence in Arlington, VA Resigned
    Jul. 10
    2018    		 Daniel Birnbaum
    Director     		Moderna Museet
    Sweden    		 will become Director at Acute Art Resigned
    Aug. 13
    2018    		 February
    2019    		 Nancy Geyer
    CEO     		Museum of Boulder
    USA    		 Retired
    Aug. 29
    2018    		 Dennis Kois
    CEO & President     		Milwaukee Public Museum
    USA    		 amid an investigation by the museum's board of directors into rumors he had an affair with a subordinate Resigned
    Sep. 06
    2018    		 Peter C. Sutton
    Director     		Bruce Museum
    USA    		 Retired
    Sep. 28
    2018    		 Nov. 19
    2018    		 Brenda Baratto
    Director     		Aiken County Historical
    Museum
    USA    		 Retired
    Sep. 28
    2018    		 Nov. 04
    2018    		 Gayle Wolman
    Human Resources Director     		Aiken County Historical
    Museum
    USA    		 Retired
    Oct. 04
    2018    		 Hubertus Knabe
    Head     		Berlin Stasi Museum
    Germany    		 harassment with sexual innuendo, unwanted touching, inappropriate invitations and late-night text messages - at the centre of the allegations was his deputy Fired
    Oct. 04
    2018    		 Helmuth Frauendorfer
    Deputy Head     		Berlin Stasi Museum
    Germany    		 harassment with sexual innuendo, unwanted touching, inappropriate invitations and late-night text messages Fired
    Oct. 31
    2018    		 Kimerly Rorschach
    Director     		Seattle Art Museum
    USA    		 to be replaced by Amada Cruz Retired
    Nov. 27
    2018    		 End of 2018 Paul Herbert
    Director     		First Division Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Jan. 04
    2019    		 Dec. 15
    2018    		 John Burroughs
    Director     		Rogers Historical Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Jan. 11
    2019    		 Robert Kret
    Director     		Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Feb. 04
    2019    		 July
    2019    		 Jeff Idelson
    President     		Baseball Hall of Fame
    USA    		 Retired
    Apr. 05
    2019    		 Jun. 30
    2019    		 Kim Findlay
    CEO & President     		Putnam Museum & Science
    Center
    USA    		 Retired
    Apr. 08
    2019    		 John L. Allen
    CEO & President     		John F. Kennedy Hyannis
    Museum
    USA    		 Retired
    May. 20
    2019    		 End of June
    2019    		 Ivy Barsky
    CEO     		National Museum of American
    Jewish History
    USA    		 Resigned
    Jun. 11
    2019    		 Aug. 02
    2019    		 Michael Boulware Moore
    CEO & President     		International African
    American Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Jun. 19
    2019    		 Jul. 01
    2019    		 Donna De Salvo
    Deputy Director     		Whitney Museum of American
    Art
    USA    		 Resigned
    Jun. 28
    2019    		 Sep. 30
    2019    		 Heidi Zuckerman
    CEO & Director     		Aspen Art Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Jun. 30
    2019    		 Jun. 30
    2019    		 Jim Dunn
    President     		U.S. Marshals Museum
    Foundation
    USA    		 to be replaced by Alice Alt Retired
    Jul. 25
    2019    		 Warren B. Kanders
    Vice Chairman     		Whitney Museum of American
    Art
    USA    		 Following Months of Protest and a Renewed Artist Boycott Resigned
    Aug. 09
    2019    		 March
    2020    		 Gordon Rintoul
    Director     		National Museums Scotland
    Scotland    		 Resigned
    Aug. 13
    2019    		 Richard Lariviere
    CEO & President     		Field Museum of Natural
    History
    USA    		 Retired
    Sep. 09
    2019    		 End of
    2019    		 Geraint Martin
    CEO     		Te Papa Tongarewa
    New Zealand    		 Resigned
    Oct. 18
    2019    		 John Boyer
    CEO & President     		Bechtler Museum of Modern
    Art
    USA    		 Resigned
    Dec. 18
    2019    		 Stephen C. White
    CEO     		Mystic Seaport
    USA    		 Retired
    Dec. 27
    2019    		 Jan. 1
    2020    		 Henry Sweets III
    Director     		The Mark Twain Boyhood
    Home & Museum
    USA    		 Retired
    Jan. 15
    2020    		 October
    2020    		 David Mosena
    CEO & President     		Museum of Science and
    Industry
    USA    		 Retired
    Feb. 10
    2020    		 Feb. 07
    2020    		 Caroline Baumann
    Director     		Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
    Design Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Feb. 18
    2020    		 David Rockwell
    Board Member     		Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
    Design Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Feb. 18
    2020    		 Judy Francis Zenkel
    Board Member     		Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
    Design Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Feb. 18
    2020    		 Kurt Andersen
    Board Member     		Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
    Design Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Feb. 18
    2020    		 Jon Kamen
    Board Member     		Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
    Design Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Feb. 18
    2020    		 Francine S. Kittredge
    Board Member     		Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
    Design Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Feb. 18
    2020    		 Avi N. Reichental
    Board Member     		Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
    Design Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Feb. 20
    2020    		 May. 31
    2020    		 Nancy Stueber
    CEO     		Oregon Museum of Science
    and Industry
    USA    		 Retired
    Feb. 26
    2020    		 Mar. 31
    2020    		 Claudette Leclerc
    CEO     		Manitoba Museum
    Canada    		 Retired
    Mar. 04
    2020    		 Mar. 27
    2020    		 Meg Ventrudo
    Director     		Jacques Marchais Museum
    of Tibetan Art
    USA    		 Retired
    Mar. 22
    2020    		 Martina Lehmannova
    Director     		Lidice Memorial
    Czech Republic    		 amid accusations that the government is trying to whitewash inconvenient facts to suit its preferred narrative Fired
    Mar. 30
    2020    		 Catherine Wood Brooks
    Director     		Vermont Underground
    Railroad Museum
    USA    		 Retired
    Jun. 25
    2020    		 Jun. 25
    2020    		 John Young
    CEO & President     		Canadian Museum for
    Human Rights
    Canada    		 after LGBT censorship, allegations of racism, harassment Resigned
    Jul. 08
    2020    		 Jul. 30
    2020    		 Janice LaMotta
    Director     		Woodstock Artists Association
    & Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Aug. 31
    2020    		 Maria Hane
    President     		Museum of Science and
    History
    USA    		 Resigned
    Sep. 04
    2020    		 Mar. 31
    2021    		 Gail Harrity
    COO & President     		Philadelphia Museum
    of Art
    USA    		 Resigned
    Sep. 08
    2020    		 W. Richard West Jr.
    CEO & President     		Autry Museum of the
    American West
    USA    		 Retired
    Sep. 18
    2020    		 Sep. 10
    2020    		 Amy Lent
    Director     		Maine Maritime Museum
    USA    		 Fired
    Dec. 03
    2020    		 Feb. 03
    2021    		 Terri Lee Freeman
    President     		National Civil Rights
    Museum
    USA    		 Resigned
    Feb. 19
    2021    		 Jun. 30
    2021    		 Frank Bennett
    CEO     		National Quilt Museum
    USA    		 Resigned

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