Following the Egyptian campaign of 1798 – 1801, Napoléon appointed the museum's first director, Dominique Vivant Denon.

Harvard appointed him professor of zoology and geology, and he founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology there in 1859 serving as the museum's first director until his death in 1873.

The museum's current director is Adam Weinberg ( since 2003 ).

The museum's director Glenn D. Lowry earned $ 1. 6 million in 2009 and lives in a rent-free $ 6 million apartment above the museum.

Henry Cole, the museum's first director

The V & A has its origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851, with which Henry Cole, the museum's first director, was involved in planning ; initially it was known as the Museum of Manufactures, first opening in May 1852 at Marlborough House, but by September had been transferred to Somerset House.

Plans are to expand the celebration of " the town's worst day in history " in future years, according to the museum's executive director, Jerry Roberts.

The museum's director enlists Donald and his nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, in a rival attempt to find the helmet first.

This is the least of their problems as the helmet changes hands between Azure Blue, the museum's director, Donald and Lawyer Sharky.

Many archaeological officials protested against this opening, arguing that conditions were not yet safe enough to put the museum at risk ; the museum's director was fired for airing her objections.

These artifacts came to wider attention in 1938 when Wilhelm König, the German director of the National Museum of Iraq, found the objects in the museum's collections.

In 1966 they were invited to hold an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and director Alfred Barr purchased a sculpture for the museum's collection

The museum's current director is Anne Hawley.

Marc Mayer was named the museum's director, succeeding Pierre Théberge, on 19 January 2009.

Over a year later, in April 2005, former Cosmosphere director Max Ary was charged with stealing artifacts from the museum's collection and selling the pieces for personal profit.

The Brooklyn Institute's director Franklin Hooper was the museum's first director, succeeded by William Henry Fox who served from 1914-1934.

Thomas S. Buechner was named as the museum's director in 1960, making him one of the youngest directors in the country.

The museum's first director, Elizabeth Usher, resigned in March 2003 amid criticism that Urbis was not appealing and the exhibits were too abstract.

Dinsmore Alter was the museum's director during its first years ; today, Dr. Ed Krupp is the director of the Observatory.

Robert W. Fri was named the museum's director in 1996.

and Ph. D. from Harvard University, would become the museum's permanent director on March 31, 2003.

According to the museum's director Ann Philbin, the museum has “ defined our primary audience as artists ”.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who described the period of looting in general as " untidiness ", said of the museum's looting, " To try to pass off the fact of that unfortunate activity to a deficit in the war plan strikes me as a stretch.

Rather than focus only on law enforcement and the current antiquities market, the group set its mission as being to ( 1 ) establish a comprehensive online catalog of all cultural artifacts in the museum's collection, ( 2 ) create a virtual Baghdad Museum that is accessible to the general public over the Internet, ( 3 ) build a 3D collaborative workspace within the virtual Baghdad Museum for design and fundraising purposes, and ( 4 ) establish a resource center within the virtual Baghdad Museum for community cultural development.

The library at the Field Museum was organized in 1893 to meet the research needs of the museum's scientific staff, visiting researchers, students, and members of the general public interested in natural history and are an essential resource for the Museum ’ s research, exhibition development and educational programs.

The Irvin Feld Exhibit Hall is the museum's largest building, and houses exhibits on the history of the Ringling Brothers Circus, as well as other exhibits relating to general aspects of circuses and circus history.

Dr Noble Frankland, the museum's Director from 1960 to 1982, described the museum's galleries in 1955 as appearing ' dingy and neglected in a dismal state of decay ' the museum's ' numerous stunning exhibits ' notwithstanding.

Two weeks after the museum thefts, when major news outlets still were reporting most of the museum's artifacts were gone, Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, General Director Research Studies for the Board of Antiquities in Iraq, said of the looting, " It's the crime of the century, because it affects the heritage of all mankind ".

The museum's curator is Dr. Arnold T. Blumberg, former editor at Geppi's Gemstone Publishing.

The core of the museum's exhibit is Dr. Dahesh's collection of more than 2, 000 academic paintings created in a style that struggled for years to compete with Impressionism.

The museum's creation stems from the Zahid Family's inheritance of Dr. Dahesh's collection upon his death.

Among the generous donors who have shaped the museum's collection are Blanche Adler, Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone, Jacob Epstein, Edward J. Gallagher, Jr., John W. and Robert Garrett, Mary Frick Jacobs, Ryda H. and Robert H. Levi, Saidie Adler May, Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Elsie C. Woodward, and Alan and Janet Wurtzburger.

Dr. Thomas Schwartz served as the museum's Interim Executive Director when Smith departed in March 2006, and until Rick Beard was appointed in October 2006.

The museum is named after Professor Ure and his wife, Dr Annie Ure, who was the museum's first curator.

Opened in November 2010 the gallery exhibits the museum's Victoria Cross ( VC ) and George Cross collection, alongside the private VC collection amassed by Michael Ashcroft, 241 medals in total.

The director of the Beijing museum, Ji Qiang, recognized the importance of the find, as did visiting Canadian palaeontologist Phil Currie and artist Michael Skrepnick, who became aware of the fossil by chance as they explored the Beijing museum's collections after leading a fossil tour of the area during the first week of October, 1996.

Subsequent acquisitions and donations have expanded the museum's collections with works by Lyman Byxbe, Ray Ellis, John Philip Falter, Michael Forsberg, Veryl Goodnight, Chuck Guildner, Cliff Hollestelle, Laurie Houseman-Whitehawk, Keith Jacobshagen, Ted Long, Herb Mignery, Andrew Peters, Del Pettigrew, Martha Pettigrew, Jackson Pollock, Norman Rockwell, Grant Wood and others.

Broad also is a life trustee and member of the executive committee of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he was instrumental in recruiting Andrea Rich as the museum's president and Michael Govan as director.

The new museum's goal is to educate and inform visitors about the military history of Arkansas, preserve the Tower Building, honor servicemen and servicewomen of the United States and commemorate the birthplace of Douglas MacArthur.

Falaises près de Dieppe ( Cliffs near Dieppe ) has been stolen on two separate occasions: once in 1998 ( in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months along with two accomplices ) and most recently in August 2007.

In 2008, the museum's library was officially named the Bob Hope Memorial Library in honor of one the station's most famous immigrants.

The museum's early beginnings in New York combined with an unclear mission created a fuzzy understanding among project leaders for precisely what was needed.

When war was formally declared a year later, most of the museum's paintings were sent there as well.

This department is one of the museum's oldest ; it began with appropriated royal art, some of which was acquired under Francis I.

The Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Archive, an administratively independent section of the Museum of Modern Art's department of architecture and design, was established in 1968 by the museum's trustees.

At the museum's PDP-1 restoration celebration in May 2006, Alan Kotok said his Macintosh PowerBook G4 laptop was 10, 000 times faster, came with 100, 000 times the RAM and 500, 000 times the storage, was 1 / 2000 the size, and cost 1 / 100 as much.

The response was so great that day that the Norman Rockwell museum's servers went down under the onslaught.

The cost of construction of the World's Congress Building was shared with the Art Institute of Chicago, which, as planned, moved into the building ( the museum's current home ) after the close of the fair.

The painting was on display at the Art Institute until its purchase by the Polish Women's Alliance on the museum's behalf.

Hochschild records that, on his visit to the colonial Royal Museum for Central Africa in the 1990s, there was no mention of the atrocities committed in the Congo Free State, despite the museum's large collection of colonial objects.

During the facility's early years, a studio for XM Satellite Radio was housed in the museum's gift shop ( it has since been moved to a private location across the street inside Bridgestone Arena ).

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum's namesake and founder, was herself a well-regarded sculptor as well as a serious art collector.

From 1942 to 1974 she was the museum's president and chairman after which she functioned as honorary chairman until her death in 1986.

This was wholly masterminded by Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, and the exhibition lionized Picasso as the greatest artist of the time, setting the model for all the museum's retrospectives that were to follow.

This was the largest fund-raising effort undertaken at the time, and will provide money for the museum's endowment, a new education building, jaguar / mountain lion habitat, and an animal retirement facility.

In April 1974, a handicapped woman, upset by the museum's policy for the disabled, sprayed red paint at the painting while it was on display at the Tokyo National Museum.

On 6 April 2005 — following a period of curatorial maintenance, recording, and analysis — the painting was moved to a new location within the museum's Salle des États.

In 2007, the island was featured in a museum display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which displayed many artifacts from various eras of treasure hunting as part of the museum's exhibit Pirates: Myth and Reality.

Recently, controversy surrounded the museum's proposed building of an £ 80 million extension called The Spiral, designed by Daniel Libeskind, which was criticised as out of keeping with the architecture of the original buildings.

A major boost to the collections was the Salting Bequest made in 1909, which enriched the museum's stock of Chinese and Japanese ceramics.