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Resignations from Museum (55 Results)
Announced Last Day Name & Position Organization Comments Reason Feb. 28
2018David Platzker
CuratorMuseum of Modern Art
USAResigned Mar. 22
2018Michael Quinn
PresidentAmerican Revolution
Museum
USAResigned Apr. 17
2018Natasha Cica
CEOHeide Museum of Modern
Art
AustraliaResigned Jun. 01
2018Veronica Milton
CFODuSable Museum of African
American History
USAResigned Jun. 13
2018Jul. 01
2018Juanita Moore
CEO & PresidentCharles H. Wright Museum
USARetired Jun. 26
2018Jul. 10
2018Nancy Halverson
CEOThe Children's Museum
of The Upstate
USAResigned Jul. 03
2018Karen Coltrane
CEO & PresidentEdVenture Children's
Museum in Columbia
USAwill become CEO at Leadership Center for Excellence in Arlington, VA Resigned Jul. 10
2018Daniel Birnbaum
DirectorModerna Museet
Swedenwill become Director at Acute Art Resigned Aug. 13
2018February
2019Nancy Geyer
CEOMuseum of Boulder
USARetired Aug. 29
2018Dennis Kois
CEO & PresidentMilwaukee Public Museum
USAamid an investigation by the museum's board of directors into rumors he had an affair with a subordinate Resigned Sep. 06
2018Peter C. Sutton
DirectorBruce Museum
USARetired Sep. 28
2018Nov. 19
2018Brenda Baratto
DirectorAiken County Historical
Museum
USARetired Sep. 28
2018Nov. 04
2018Gayle Wolman
Human Resources DirectorAiken County Historical
Museum
USARetired Oct. 04
2018Hubertus Knabe
HeadBerlin Stasi Museum
Germanyharassment with sexual innuendo, unwanted touching, inappropriate invitations and late-night text messages - at the centre of the allegations was his deputy Fired Oct. 04
2018Helmuth Frauendorfer
Deputy HeadBerlin Stasi Museum
Germanyharassment with sexual innuendo, unwanted touching, inappropriate invitations and late-night text messages Fired Oct. 31
2018Kimerly Rorschach
DirectorSeattle Art Museum
USAto be replaced by Amada Cruz Retired Nov. 27
2018End of 2018 Paul Herbert
DirectorFirst Division Museum
USAResigned Jan. 04
2019Dec. 15
2018John Burroughs
DirectorRogers Historical Museum
USAResigned Jan. 11
2019Robert Kret
DirectorGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum
USAResigned Feb. 04
2019July
2019Jeff Idelson
PresidentBaseball Hall of Fame
USARetired Apr. 05
2019Jun. 30
2019Kim Findlay
CEO & PresidentPutnam Museum & Science
Center
USARetired Apr. 08
2019John L. Allen
CEO & PresidentJohn F. Kennedy Hyannis
Museum
USARetired May. 20
2019End of June
2019Ivy Barsky
CEONational Museum of American
Jewish History
USAResigned Jun. 11
2019Aug. 02
2019Michael Boulware Moore
CEO & PresidentInternational African
American Museum
USAResigned Jun. 19
2019Jul. 01
2019Donna De Salvo
Deputy DirectorWhitney Museum of American
Art
USAResigned Jun. 28
2019Sep. 30
2019Heidi Zuckerman
CEO & DirectorAspen Art Museum
USAResigned Jun. 30
2019Jun. 30
2019Jim Dunn
PresidentU.S. Marshals Museum
Foundation
USAto be replaced by Alice Alt Retired Jul. 25
2019Warren B. Kanders
Vice ChairmanWhitney Museum of American
Art
USAFollowing Months of Protest and a Renewed Artist Boycott Resigned Aug. 09
2019March
2020Gordon Rintoul
DirectorNational Museums Scotland
ScotlandResigned Aug. 13
2019Richard Lariviere
CEO & PresidentField Museum of Natural
History
USARetired Sep. 09
2019End of
2019Geraint Martin
CEOTe Papa Tongarewa
New ZealandResigned Oct. 18
2019John Boyer
CEO & PresidentBechtler Museum of Modern
Art
USAResigned Dec. 18
2019Stephen C. White
CEOMystic Seaport
USARetired Dec. 27
2019Jan. 1
2020Henry Sweets III
DirectorThe Mark Twain Boyhood
Home & Museum
USARetired Jan. 15
2020October
2020David Mosena
CEO & PresidentMuseum of Science and
Industry
USARetired Feb. 10
2020Feb. 07
2020Caroline Baumann
DirectorCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
Design Museum
USAResigned Feb. 18
2020David Rockwell
Board MemberCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
Design Museum
USAResigned Feb. 18
2020Judy Francis Zenkel
Board MemberCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
Design Museum
USAResigned Feb. 18
2020Kurt Andersen
Board MemberCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
Design Museum
USAResigned Feb. 18
2020Jon Kamen
Board MemberCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
Design Museum
USAResigned Feb. 18
2020Francine S. Kittredge
Board MemberCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
Design Museum
USAResigned Feb. 18
2020Avi N. Reichental
Board MemberCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian
Design Museum
USAResigned Feb. 20
2020May. 31
2020Nancy Stueber
CEOOregon Museum of Science
and Industry
USARetired Feb. 26
2020Mar. 31
2020Claudette Leclerc
CEOManitoba Museum
CanadaRetired Mar. 04
2020Mar. 27
2020Meg Ventrudo
DirectorJacques Marchais Museum
of Tibetan Art
USARetired Mar. 22
2020Martina Lehmannova
DirectorLidice Memorial
Czech Republicamid accusations that the government is trying to whitewash inconvenient facts to suit its preferred narrative Fired Mar. 30
2020Catherine Wood Brooks
DirectorVermont Underground
Railroad Museum
USARetired Jun. 25
2020Jun. 25
2020John Young
CEO & PresidentCanadian Museum for
Human Rights
Canadaafter LGBT censorship, allegations of racism, harassment Resigned Jul. 08
2020Jul. 30
2020Janice LaMotta
DirectorWoodstock Artists Association
& Museum
USAResigned Aug. 31
2020Maria Hane
PresidentMuseum of Science and
History
USAResigned Sep. 04
2020Mar. 31
2021Gail Harrity
COO & PresidentPhiladelphia Museum
of Art
USAResigned Sep. 08
2020W. Richard West Jr.
CEO & PresidentAutry Museum of the
American West
USARetired Sep. 18
2020Sep. 10
2020Amy Lent
DirectorMaine Maritime Museum
USAFired Dec. 03
2020Feb. 03
2021Terri Lee Freeman
PresidentNational Civil Rights
Museum
USAResigned Feb. 19
2021Jun. 30
2021Frank Bennett
CEONational Quilt Museum
USAResigned
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