Jane Pickering named director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum

Monday, May 27, 2019 - 21:08 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Jane Pickering has been named the William and Muriel Seabury Howells Director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Claudine Gay announced today. Pickering will begin her five-year term July 1. Pickering has been executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) since 2013. She was the first person to hold the post, overseeing public programming for a consortium of six partner museums: the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Harvard University Herbaria, and the Mineralogical & Geological Museum (which collaborate as the Harvard Museum of Natural History), the Semitic Museum, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, and the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. The Museums of Science & Culture will begin a search for a new director this summer. Pickering will oversee the curation, care and conservation, and programming of one of the oldest and largest collections of cultural objects in the Western Hemisphere. The Peabody was...

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