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3 unusual facts about Rebecca Alban Hoffberger


American Visionary Art Museum

The founder and director of the AVAM is Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, who while working in the development department of Sinai Hospital’s (Baltimore) People Encouraging People (a program geared toward aiding psychiatric patients in their return to the community) began to develop the idea for a visionary museum, an idea that eventually blossomed into the American Visionary Art Museum, or AVAM.

The museum’s founder, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, takes pride in the fact that AVAM is "pretty un-museumy".

Andrija Puharich

While working in Mexico, Puharich married and later divorced the future Baltimore outsider art promoter Rebecca Alban Hoffberger.



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