•
Hermon Carey Bumpus (1906–1907), director of the
American Museum of Natural History •
William M.R. French (1907–1908), director of the
Art Institute of Chicago •
William Jacob Holland (1908–1909), director of the
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh • Frederic A. Lucas (1909–1910), director of the
American Museum of Natural History • Frederick J.V. Skiff (1910–1911), director of the
Field Museum of Natural History •
Edward S. Morse (1911–1912), director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology • Henry L. Ward (1912–1913), director of the
Milwaukee Public Museum •
Benjamin Ives Gilman (1913–1914), secretary of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston •
Oliver C. Farrington (1914–1916), curator,
Field Museum of Natural History • Henry R. Howland (1916–1918), director of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences • Newton H. Carpenter (1918–1918), executive secretary of the
Art Institute of Chicago • William Powell Wilson (1918–1919) director of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum • Paul M. Rea (1919–1921), director of the
Charleston Museum •
Frederic Allen Whiting (1921–1923), director of the
Cleveland Museum of Art • Chauncey J. Hamlin (1923–1929), president of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science and a founder of
ICOM •
Fiske Kimball (1929–1932), director of the
Philadelphia Museum of Art •
Paul J. Sachs (1932–1936), associate director of the
Fogg Art Museum,
Harvard University •
Herbert E. Winlock (1936–1938), director of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art •
Clark Wissler (1938–1945), curator of the Department of Anthropology, Yale University •
David E. Finley (1945–1949), director of the
National Gallery of Art and chairman of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation •
George Harold Edgell (1949–1951), director of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston •
Albert E. Parr (1951–1953), director of the
American Museum of Natural History • William M. Milliken (1953–1957), director of the
Cleveland Museum of Art •
Edward P. Alexander (1957–1960), vice president for interpretation at
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation • Froelich G. Rainey (1960–1963), director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the
University of Pennsylvania •
Charles Van Ravenswaay (1963–1966), director of the
Missouri Historical Society • Charles Parkhurst (1966–1968), director of the
Baltimore Museum of Art •
William C. Steere (1968–1970), president, the
New York Botanical Garden • James M. Brown III (1970–1972), director of the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts • Charles E. Buckley (1972–1974), director of the
Saint Louis Art Museum •
Joseph M. Chamberlain (1974–75), director and president of
Adler Planetarium • Joseph Veach Noble (1975–1978), director of the
Museum of the City of New York • M. Kenneth Starr (1978–1980), director of
Milwaukee Public Museum •
Craig Call Black, director of
Carnegie Museum of Natural History • Dan Monroe, director of
Portland Art Museum • Robert MacDonald (1985–1988), director of the
Museum of the City of New York •
W. Richard West (1998–2000), director of the
National Museum of the American Indian • Louis Casagrande (2002–2004), director of the
Boston Children's Museum • Jeffrey Rudolph (2004–2006), director of the
California Science Center •
Irene Hirano (2006–2008), director of the
Japanese American National Museum • Carl R. Nold (2008–2010), president and chief executive officer of
Historic New England • Douglas G. Myers (2010–2012), executive director of
San Diego Zoo Global • Meme Omogbai (2012–2014), chief operating officer of the
Newark Museum •
Kaywin Feldman (2014–2016), director and president of the
Minneapolis Institute of Art • Douglas Jones (2016–2018), director of the
Florida Museum of Natural History • Kippen de Alba Chu (2018–2020), executive director of
Iolani Palace • Chevy Humphrey (2020–2022), president and CEO of the
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago ==Directors/Presidents==