Museum founders
Category: Museum founders

Xu Sihai
Chinese purple clay teapots maker and collector

Miriam Saphira
New Zealand psychologist, poet, artist, author

SM Abraham Lincoln
Bangladeshi lawyer

Ann Harithas
American art collector

Ann B. Friedman
Philanthropist and museum founder

Annie S. Kemerer

Frank L. Horton
Co-founder and director of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts

Ellen Havre Weis
American historian and museum founder

Roye England
Modeller and museum curator

John Butler Talcott
American industrialist (1824 - 1905)
Iola Williams
American politician, civil rights activist and museum executive

Peter Loboda
Sloveens; beeldhouwer; 1894; 1952

Larry Aldrich
American fashion design, art collector, and founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

John Warhola
Andy Warhol's brother and trustee of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Les Stocker
Wildlife campaigner

Björn Stenvers
Bernice Steadman
American aviator and autobiographer

Park Chan-su
Korean sculptor

Edward Eugene Claplanhoo
Makah elder and former chairman of the Makah Tribe

Edith R. Wyle
American artist

Halsey Ives
Director of an American museum

John Gaspard Gubbins
English Africana collector and writer
Margaret Desenfans

Ethel Wilson Gammon
American educator and museum director

Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.
American art collector

Paul Stewart
American historian

Eric Estorick
Art dealer

Leif Preus
Norwegian photographer

Hans Rasmus Astrup
Norvegian businessman born 1939
Terrance Lindall
American artist

Stephen Kanner
American architect

Owsley Brown Frazier
American philanthropist

Michael Stern
American journalist

Martha W. Longenecker
American artist

Josephine Porter Boardman
American socialite and patron of the arts

Anders Åberg
Swedish artist

Hsin Tao
Buddhist monk

Johannes Hage
Danish museum founder

HP Newquist
Author

Emmett Forrest
American museum founder