Gilded Age Museum Directors Forum
January 8, 2010
6:30 p.m.

Free for Museum Members at the Sustaining level and above
$5 for Individual, Family and Life Members
$25 for non-members

The Flagler Museum hosted a Forum with seven museum directors on January 8th at 6:30 p.m. This was the second Forum in the series where visitors may join the directors of some of America’s most distinguished Gilded Age house museums as they discuss nineteenth century art, architecture, culture, and historic preservation. This Forum also focused on the challenges of maintaining our historic sites in the face of economic and social change.

The Forum included John Blades of the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Bill Bodine of the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh, Trudy Coxe of the Preservation Society of Newport County, Joel Hoffman of Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in Miami, John Murdoch of the Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, Anne Poulet of the Frick Collection in New York and John Wetenhall, formerly with the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. There was a reception with the directors in the Lake Room following the Forum.

Web visitors also experienced the Forum via a live, interactive, Web seminar. On-line visitors listened to the Forum live and asked questions of the speakers. There was no charge to join the Forum live on-line.

Web visitors may listen to the Forum by clikcing the link below:

The Gilded Age Museum Directors Forum was sponsored by: