{"id":4568,"date":"2011-08-03T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4568"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:31:20","slug":"adirondack-museum-hires-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/03\/adirondack-museum-hires-new-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Adirondack Museum hires new director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\">The Blue Mountain Lake-based Adirondack Museum announced a few minutes ago that it is hiring a new executive director from California to lead the institution. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\">Kevin J. Arquit, Chairman of the Board of the Adirondack Museum announced today that the Board of Trustees has unanimously<br \/>\nconfirmed the appointment of David M. Kahn as the new Executive Director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Board was very fortunate to identify Kahn as the museums next<br \/>\nDirector,&#8221; said Arquit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\">&#8220;This is an exciting time for the Adirondack Museum to bring in someone as accomplished as David because he has devoted his entire career to the museum profession.\u00a0 His skills, experience, and passion for history will undoubtedly continue to move the museum forward as a rich cultural resource and intellectually engaging place.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\">Kahn is a native New Yorker and a veteran museum administrator.\u00a0 He comes on line at a challenging time for museums like the one in Blue Mountain Lake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\">Outdoor museums are struggling to build and maintain attendance, and they also\u00a0 face cuts in state and Federal funding.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\">According to the museum&#8217;s announcement, Kahn had a strong track record while leding the Connecticut Historical Society, where he built the &#8220;operating budget&#8230;from $1.7<br \/>\nmillion to $5 million and the institution quadrupled its audience to 70,000.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: monospace;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blue Mountain Lake-based Adirondack Museum announced a few minutes ago that it is hiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}