Adam Foreman is a museum professional, educator and public historian with more than two decades of experience leading museums and historic sites. He is currently the executive director at the Shadows-on-the-Teche in New Iberia, where his work focuses on shifting the business model of the museum to center community engagement and interpreting the lives and experiences of those who lived and labored at the Shadows.
In 2025, Shadows-on-the-Teche received “Bronze Award for Exhibit under $25,000 in the Southeast” from Southeastern Museums Conference for the exhibit “A picture, Unbroken.”
Foreman is an American Alliance of Museums Peer Reviewer, a past member of the America250 Education Committee and certified by the National Association for Interpretation. His scholarship and professional practice examine power, memory and equity in public history, with particular attention to how museums navigate contested narratives and contemporary civic responsibility.…