1996 Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in New York City
1996 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60
1996 Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
1996 Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary, dies at 84
1995 Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90
1995 John Walker, museum director, dies at 88
1995 Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83
1995 Roye England, modeller/museum curator, dies at 88
1995 James Pack, naval officer museum curator, dies at 81
1994 Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78
1994 Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator, dies at 63
1994 National Museum of American Indian opens (New York City)
1994 Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87
1994 Anne P. Sidamon-Eristoff named chairwoman of Museum of National History
1993 Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1992 Paul E Garber, 1st curator (Natl Air and Space Museum), dies at 93
1992 Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem, Israel
1992 Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
1991 New York City's Museum of Broadcasting becomes "Museum of Radio and Television"
1990 Center for Urban archaeology opens in New York City South Street Seaport Museum
1990 Ellis Island reopens as a museum
1990 Biggest U.S. art robbery, $100's millions at Gardner Museum, Boston
1989 Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen
1988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
1988 Bronx Museum for Arts opens
1988 Museum of Moving Image in London opens
1987 Jean Helion, artist/author (Museum of Living Art), dies at 83
1987 John Baur, museum director, dies at 78
1987 National Museum of Female Physician opens in Washington D.C.
1987 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
1986 President Carter's presidential library dedicated in Atlanta
1986 Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland
1984 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels
1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington D.C.
1981 Joseph H Hirschhorn, U.S. art collector/founder H Museum, dies at 82
1981 Richard Nixon Museum in San Clemente closes
1981 1st Richard Nixon museum opens in San Clemente, California
1980 Bank of Canada's Canadian Currency Museum opens
1972 American Museum of Immigration dedicated
1969 Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies
1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History
1964 San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated
1963 Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum
1961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd
1960 Helen Rees, director, Design Museum
1959 Guggenheim Museum, by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in N.Y.C.
1959 Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 89
1958 Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk
1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum
1951 Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, San Francisco opens
1949 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
1948 Michael Houlihan, director, Horniman Museum and Gardens
1944 R. J. B. Knight, deputy director, National Maritime Museum
1943 William H Singer, U.S. painter/collector (Singer Museum), dies at 75
1943 Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum
1942 Neil Chalmers, director, National History Museum, London
1939 Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder, dies at 70
1938 Kroller-Muller museum opens in Holland
1937 Max Hebditch, director, Museum of London
1936 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator
1935 Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director, Victoria and Albert Museum
1935 Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
1935 Hague local museum opens
1931 David Wilson, director of British Museum, 1977-92
1931 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
1931 Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator
1929 New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1929 Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City
1928 Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Neth
1927 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
1926 Pierre Janssen, art museum director
1926 Guido Companions birthplace as a museum opens
1925 Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
1924 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
1923 1st planetarium opens at Deutsche Museum in Munich
1923 Michael Jaffe, director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England
1922 Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam
1921 Petrus Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93
1921 DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park opens
1919 John Cox, Flemish/US painter/dir, Museum of Fine Physician, Boston
1916 Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam
1916 Robert Jesse Charleston, museum Curator
1916 Gene Mitchell, museum director
1914 James Pack, naval officer museum curator
1914 New York Museum of Science and Industry incorporated
1913 "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
1912 Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator
1911 Bentley Bridgewater, British Museum secretary
1909 John Baur, museum director/author, American Paintings in 19th Century
1909 Victoria and Albert Museum opens in London
1907 John Canaday, art critic, Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios
1906 John Walker, museum director
1906 Roye England, modeller/museum curator
1906 Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam
1906 Norman Cook, museum curator
1905 Trenchard Cox, museum director
1903 Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam
1899 Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet, Teotihuacan
1899 Paul E Garber, U.S. founder/1st curator of National Air and Space Museum
1899 Victoria and Albert Museum foundation laid England
1897 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director
1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
1885 Lionel Atwill, English/U.S. actor, Mystery of the Wax Museum
1883 A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery
1881 Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens
1879 Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies
1872 Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City
1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in New York City
1869 American Museum of Natural History opens (New York City)
1869 Ales Hrdlicka, U.S., anthropologist and curator, US National Museum
1869 Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch founder, Kroller-Muller Museum
1868 William H Singer, U.S. painter/collector, Singer Museum, Laren
1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport
1865 P. T. Barnum's museum burns down
1864 Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans
1861 Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist, Guggenheim Museum New York City
1860 William C Mills, museum curator, excavated Ohio Indian mounds
1857 Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator
1856 Daniel Guggenheim, U.S., Guggenheim Museum
1838 Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands
1827 Petrus J H Cuypers, architect, Amsterdam Museum, Central station
1813 Junius S. Morgan, U.S., merchant/philanthropist, Metro Museum of Art
1797 Anthony Panizzi, Librarian at British Museum
1778 Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76
1773 1st U.S. public museum established (Charlestown SC)
1761 Madame [Marie Grosholtz] Tussaud, created wax museum
1759 British Museum opens in London
1759 British Museum opens in Montague House, London
1753 John Soane, English architect, Bank of England, Soane Museum
1753 British Museum forms and opens in 1759
1753 Hans Sloane, English physician (British Museum), dies at 92
1702 Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant, Teyler's Museum
1660 Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder, British Museum
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