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unusual facts about museum director



Richard Liversidge

Richard Liversidge, naturalist, ornithologist and museum director, was born on 17 September 1926 in Blantyre, Nyasaland (now Malawi), and died on 15 September 2003 in Kimberley, South Africa.


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Bailey's shrew

The name honours American naturalist and museum director Alfred Marshall Bailey.

Baron Clark

Kenneth Clark - English author, museum director, broadcaster, and art historian

Brauer

Friedrich Moritz Brauer (1832–1904), Austrian entomologist and museum director

Cecil Smith

Cecil Harcourt Smith (1859–1944), British archaeologist and museum director

Cleveland Museum of Art

While the first phase of the project cost saw $9.3 million in cost overruns and pushed back the initial reopening by 9 months, (then) museum director Timothy Rub assured the public that increase in quality would be worth both the wait and expense.

Cunliffe-Owen

Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen (1828–1894), English exhibition organizer and museum director

Earl Powell

Earl A. Powell III (born 1943), American art historian and museum director

El-Amra clay model of cattle

In 2010 the model was included as the eighth object in the series A History of the World in 100 Objects by British Museum director Neil MacGregor, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Jay Robinson

During 1974, he played the museum director in an episode of the ABC supernatural show The Night Stalker entitled "Chopper".

Johanna Mestorf

Johanna Mestorf (17 April 1828, Bad Bramstedt, Duchy of Holstein - 20 July 1909, Kiel) was a German prehistoric archaeologist, the first female museum director in the Kingdom of Prussia and usually said to be the first female professor in Germany.

John Cotton Dana

John Cotton Dana (b. August 19, 1856 in Woodstock, Vermont — d. July 21, 1929 in New Jersey) was an American librarian and museum director whose main objective was to make the library relevant to the daily lives of the citizens and to promote the benefits of reading.

John Dana

John Cotton Dana (1856-1929), American librarian and museum director

New Zealand Coot

It was described in 1893 by New Zealand naturalist, ethnologist and museum director Augustus Hamilton, from material he had collected the previous year at Castle Rocks on the Oreti River in Southland.

Pedro Joseph de Lemos

Pedro Joseph de Lemos (25 May 1882 Austin, Nevada - 5 December 1945) was an American painter, printmaker, architect, illustrator, writer, lecturer and museum director.

Pleyte

Willem Pleyte (1836–1903), Dutch Egyptologist and museum director; father of Cornelis Marinus Pleyte

Utopiales

Founded by Bruno della Chiesa, and run by science fiction museum director Patrick Gyger from 2001 to 2005, it is put on by the "Association du Festival International de Science-Fiction de Nantes".

Van Deren

Van Deren Coke (1921–2004), American photographer and museum director

Walkom

Arthur Bache Walkom (1889–1976), Australian paleobotanist and museum director