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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 (National 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 Hall of Fame and Museum announced to be built in Cleveland 1984 King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels 1984 Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56 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 Dickie Thon, born in South Bend, Indiana, Richard William 'Dickie' Thon, baseball player, shortstop, played for Major League Baseball teams California Angels, Milwaukee Brewers, suffered Mike Torrez fastball facial injury, Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Famer, 2003 1958 Flemish Open air museum opens in Bokrijk 1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum 1951 Liz Phillips, born in New Jersey, composer, sound artist, interactive artist, creates sound installations relating to live forms, has held exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, collaborated with Merce Cunningham Dance Company 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, Netherlands 1928 Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations' 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 Hans Thoma, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt Museum, dies in Karlsruhe, Germany, at the age of 85 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/U.S. 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 1902 Lucie Rie, born in Vienna, Austria, born Luzie Gomperz, potter, works displayed in collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York 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 1839 Hans Thoma, born in Bernau, Germany, painter, style reminiscent of the Pre-Raphaelites, works include 'Eve in Paradise', at the Frankfurt 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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