In March 2008, it was renamed in honor of Bart Benjamin, Director of the Cernan Earth and Space Center of Triton College in River Grove, Illinois, former curator at the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois, and longstanding member of the Peoria Astronomical Society.
Permanent seats were reserved by its original charter for one voting representative from each of the following institutions: Bradley University, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria Public Schools, Peoria Public Library, Pekin Public Schools, and Illinois Central College.
Bachelor of Arts | British Museum | Museum of Modern Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art | Russian Academy of Sciences | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | American Museum of Natural History | Master of Arts | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Victoria and Albert Museum | Natural History Museum | Electronic Arts | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Honolulu Museum of Art | museum | Whitney Museum of American Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | National Air and Space Museum | Brooklyn Museum | National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts | Hermitage Museum | National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame | Institute of Contemporary Arts |