Advisory Board

Andrew S. Ackerman has served since 1990 as Executive Director of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, where he is responsible for the institution’s management and artistic direction. In that time, the museum has doubled its attendance and budget and completed a 10,000 sq. ft. addition.He began his museum career in 1975 as an instructor at The Exhibit Museum in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he taught history and natural science to school groups and conceived and implemented a program for pre-schoolers. In 1977, he returned to his native New York to become Director of Education of

The Jewish Museum. He held that position until 1985, when he became Assistant Director of The Jewish Museum, responsible for long-range program planning, fundraising, and the integration of audio-visual technology into exhibition programs.From 1986 to 1990, Mr. Ackerman served as Director of the Arts in Education Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.