This is a first for Albany’s New York State Museum (NYSM)—charting its own history by appointing its first woman director, Jennifer Saunders, to lead the nearly 200-year-old institution.
NYSM is the oldest and largest public museum in the US. Its broad range of collections span science, history, archaeology and anthropology, overflowing with more than 20 million artefacts, from a billion years ago to today.
A virtual press conference was held on Monday 14 July to announce Saunders’s appointment. “I’m excited to work with the staff and be able to utilise the amazing collection at the museum to showcase all the stories that New York has to offer,” Saunders said at the event. She noted that she is also looking forward to discovering more about her own family history in New York dating back to the Revolutionary War…