Ms. Hobson works with a variety of civic and professional institutions, including serving as a director of the Field Museum, the Chicago Public Education Fund and the Sundance Institute.
At the end of the meeting the Director-General paid a visit to the Director of the State Hermitage Museum, Mr. Mikhail Piotrovsky on further strengthening the ongoing cooperation between the Museum and UNESCO for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Museum in 2013, as well as for regional capacity-building of museum professionals in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
Fernando Checa, a leading art historian and director of the Prado Museum in Madrid, recently published a study on Philip II as a Renaissance prince.
Oast houses, in their heyday, were a crucial part of beer production, said Tony Read, director of operations at Kent Life, a museum and visitor center devoted to preserving the county's traditions and history.
He also gave his blessing to the museum's naming of a businessman as its director, and some have charged that the museum's artistic integrity has suffered as a result.
Professor Clive Finlayson, director of the Gibraltar Museum, said the find presented a number of questions, such as to what extent culture could continue to be used as a proxy for different prehistoric human groups.
"In the United States, we tend to have a romantic view of owning a great British estate, " says Tom Savage, the director of museum affairs at Winterthur, the 175-room Delaware estate of the late chemical heir Henry Francis du Pont, which houses the foremost collection of American furniture and decorative objects.
Today Alemseged is the director of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences, a multifaceted scientific institution and museum where he combines his scientific research with his passion for public education.
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Indeed, I learned something I didn't know when I attended the standing-room-only Bierstadt lecture, delivered by Annette Blaugrund, a former director of the National Academy Museum.
"These objects were never meant to have left Egypt, and therefore should rightfully belong to the government of Egypt, " Thomas Campbell, director of the museum, said in a statement released on Wednesday.
Andy Clark, a director and trustee of the National Museum of Computing, said the vintage machines helped to generate interest in technology: "People come along, look at them, get engaged and interested, and that's our next generation of computer scientists".
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In 2010, Moggridge became the director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Museum in New York, and was a recipient of that institution's lifetime achievement award.
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Wertkin, director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, who is planning a 1999 sequel to his museum's 1975 tramp art exhibit.
"There are those of us who genuinely love these things and see something in them that a lot of people don't see, but it doesn't really convert to a commercial reality, " says Donald Kelly, the former executive director of the Rothschild Petersen Patent Model Museum, who now runs Intellectual Asset Management Associates, a Washington, D.
"It's the first thing you see as you walk through the courtyard, The Don doffing his baggy green cap, " said Richard Mulvaney, director of the museum, which attracts more than 50, 000 visitors a year.
At the L.A. County Museum of Art (Lacma), director Michael Govan is also cultivating influential shows.
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The exhibition also explores other Welsh links with Antarctica - a geologist from St Fagans, a stowaway from Newport and the Antarctic work of a zoologist from St Brides Major who later became director of the National Museum.
He had a comfortable childhood in Cambridge, where his father was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
The Director-General also went on a tour of the Stone Town, and visited the Museum as well as other historic places.
But another opportunity arose recently when I visited the Metropolitan Museum with Gilles Bourdos, the director of "Renoir, " a French film that was set to have its debut a few days later.
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While being a shrewd and innovative businessman, "Jim Henson created indelible, memorable characters that live with us throughout a variety of media, " said Carl Goodman, executive director of the Museum of the Moving Image.
That means it is likely to be a busy year for Ed Johnson, director of science at the Staten Island Museum, which, with about 35, 000 specimens, said it boasts the largest cicada collection in North America.
Dr Brown, director of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, told The Culture Show that it was "a substantial discovery".
"I don't consider these works of art, but edutainment, " says Masanori Aoyagi, a vice president at the University of Tokyo and an Otsuka Museum director.
"Identifying the voice of Alexander Graham Bell, the man who brought us everyone else's voice, is a major moment in the study of history, " said museum director John Gray.
Mr. LEONARD KRISHTALKA (Museum Director): For example, here is a discovery by Gingerich of an ancient whale, its hind leg, and here is the hind leg of the hippopotamus and the structures are very, very similar.
According to Lorcan Otway, director of the Museum of the American Gangster in New York, Capone was adept at creating a public image that captured the imagination of Americans, a feat helped greatly by new media outlets of the time.
This issue was also raised during a panelist discussion at The Armory Show last month when Bonnie Clearwater, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, pointed out that before the last recession, the price of art works by many young new artists shot up before they had received much critical exposure.
The museum's director, Piotr Cywinski, said the sign would probably form part of a new exhibition.
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