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Illinois State Museum Reopens January 26
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – As a result of updated COVID-19 mitigations, the Illinois State Museum (ISM) will reopen its flagship facility in Springfield and Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewistown on Tuesday, January 26, with health and safety precautions in place. The ISM Research and Collections Center, also located in Springfield, will reopen by appointment only. The ISM Lockport Gallery in Lockport remains closed under Tier 3 mitigations.
“We are thankful that we have reached this milestone and can safely reopen the Illinois State Museum and continue operating as we were in November,” said Museum Director Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko. “We have so much planned for this year – new exhibits, programs, and initiatives – and we are excited to see visitors return.”
Dickson Mounds to re-open Tuesday
Canton Daily Ledger
LEWISTOWN As a result of updated COVID-19 mitigations, the Illinois State Museum (ISM) will reopen its flagship facility in Springfield and Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewistown Tuesday, Jan. 26, with health and safety precautions in place. The ISM Research and Collections Center, also located in Springfield, will reopen by appointment only. The ISM Lockport Gallery in Lockport remains closed under Tier 3 mitigations.
“We are thankful that we have reached this milestone and can safely reopen the Illinois State Museum and continue operating as we were in November,” said Museum Director Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko. “We have so much planned for this year - new exhibits, programs, and initiatives - and we are excited to see visitors return.”
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Irving “Irv” Seltzer of Duncansville died Friday and is being remembered as a Blair County businessman, Rotarian, philanthropist and leader.
“Irv never did anything halfway. He put his heart and soul into everything he did,” said Joe Hurd, president/CEO of the Blair County Chamber. “You don’t realize until after someone is gone the void that is left by his passing.”
Altoona businessman Larry McAleer said he knew Seltzer as a client in his plumbing and heating business, as a Rotarian and friend.
“I was really, really lucky to see a lot of Irv,” McAleer said. “Irv always seemed to be calm. He didn’t rattle. He was steady all the time.”
Dr. Brian P. Kennedy to step down as Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum
The Peabody Essex Museum s main entrance. Photo: Wikipedia / Cathypem.
SALEM, MASS
.-The Peabody Essex Museum announced that Dr. Brian P. Kennedy will step down from his position as the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Director and CEO on December 31, 2020. Dr. Kennedy has been Director and CEO since March 2019.
The Board will form a search committee to begin the process of identifying a new Director and CEO.
Dr. Kennedy led the museum through the challenges associated with the pandemic crisis, began a strategic planning process, and continued work on diversity and inclusion, said Stuart Pratt, Chair of the Board of Trustees. PEM is in a strong position moving forward, having opened a new Collections Center and a new wing in 2019, completed many new and innovative installations of its collections, and successfully adapted to an entirely new Covid-operating environment.
Brian P. Kennedy, director and chief executive of the Peabody Essex Museum Peabody Essex Museum
After just 17 months, Brian P. Kennedy is stepping down as director and chief executive of the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, the institution has announced. He gave no reason beyond wanting to seek “a new challenge” and did not say where he was headed next.
Kennedy, who took over as director in July 2019 following his hiring the previous March, is leaving on 31 December. The Dublin-born museum leader had previously served for nine years as president, director and chief executive of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio.