Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
First woman to direct a major American art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art)
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Flora Park Cave Spurdle
New Zealand historian, journalist and museum worker
Coco Fusco
Across all the varied mediums in which she works her art interrogates the systems of contemporary power that impact and restrict the lives of people ‘othered’ by the society they live in, whether because of their race or ethnicity, nationality, class position, gender, or the intersections between them.
Mairéad Dunlevy
Irish museum curator and expert on Irish costume and decorative arts
Bel-Shalti-Nanna
Babylonian high-priestess of the Moon God at Ur and founder of the world’s first museum.
Annette Pearse
Curator and director of Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society
Olga Sansom
Olga Sansom’s contribution to natural science had been recognised by the Southland branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1960 when it made her a life member. The Southland Museum and Art Gallery similarly honoured her in 1966. In 1973 her achievements gained international attention when she was included in the first edition of The world who’s who of women. Her services to New Zealand were acknowledged in 1979 when she received the Queen’s Service Medal.
Pauline Fanning
Fanning’s roles at the National Library of Australia included Chief Librarian, Australian Reference (1966-1972); Principal Librarian, Australian Reference (1972-1975) and Director, Australian National Humanities Library (1975-1980).
Amy Castle
Amy Castle was the first entomologist and the first woman appointed in a professional role in a New Zealand museum. She was also one of the first women to be employed in a scientific position in the New Zealand public service.
Nancy Mary Adams
Nancy Adams was a botanist, botanical artist and museum curator whose significant contributions to botany included the illustrations for more than 40 publications on New Zealand’s native plants, alpine areas, and common trees, shrubs and flowers, and her 1994 work Seaweeds of New Zealand: an illustrated guide.