A director for Museums of Science and Culture
Dean Michael D. Smith of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announced today that Jane Pickering has been named executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture. Pickering is currently deputy director and director of public programs at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. In the spring of 2012, Smith, in collaboration with faculty leaders of the individual FAS museums, announced a new consortium, the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture (HMSC), to develop a strong, coordinated public face for these collections. The FAS museums include some of the world’s premier collections in many disciplines. The faculty and staff associated with the collections are widely recognized for their scholarship. “Harvard’s collections are some of our most unique and valuable resources, benefiting in some instances from centuries of faculty-led collection development and scholarship,” said Smith, who is also John H. Finley Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences. “The...