That makes two new museum directors taking charge on the North Shore in 2019 – Brian Kennedy at PEM and Oliver Barker at Cape Ann Museum.
The news from Toledo’s perspective
“Brian Kennedy, the Toledo Museum of Art’s ninth director since its founding in 1901, will leave his post in June to lead the nation’s oldest continuously operating art museum.
Mr. Kennedy, who has been with the TMA since 2010, is moving to become the director of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., it was announced Thursday. His last day with the Toledo museum is June 30, and he admitted during an interview with The Blade in his office that the decision has a bittersweet quality.”
No official release from PEM, see news from Salem in the GDT and the Boston Globe
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