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Halsey Spruance
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
As executive director of the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science for the last 16 years, Halsey Spruance manages a 71,000-square-foot museum that reaches 90,000 people annually. He was at the helm of a major $10.8 million renovation of the museum in 2022, which also saw the museum change
its name and refocus its exhibits on Delaware’s ecology. The museum holds large collections of mollusks and birds, and the second largest collection of birds’ eggs in North America.
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Chris Strand
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
When Winterthur Museum, Garden
& Library, one of Delaware’s most attended and respected museums, needed to find a new CEO in 2021, it turned to Chris Strand. He had served as director of garden and estate at Winterthur since 2005, managing the care of the historic du Pont family’s nearly 1,000-acre property. As its leader, Strand will be responsible for Winterthur’s numerous academic programs with the University of Delaware, fundraising, planning and more. He already scored a win in landing a major exhibit on late couture designer Ann Lowe.
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