National Museum of the Great Lakes names Anna Kolin as Development Director Construction
Toledo, Ohio- The Great Lakes Historical Society is pleased to announce the hiring of Anna M. Kolin as Development Director for the National Museum of the Great Lakes. Ms. Kolin brings more than a decade of non-profit and museum experience to GLHS, most recently serving as Communications and PR Manager for Imagination Station. “Adding our first Toledo employee to the ranks of GLHS proves that this project is moving steadily forward,” said Chris Gillcrist, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Historical Society, the parent organization of the National Museum of the Great Lakes. “Ms. Kolin brings a wealth of knowledge in Toledo’s non-profit and museum community, as well as extensive experience in public relations.” The hiring of GLHS’s first Toledo crew member precedes the beginning of major construction at the Toledo Maritime Center, the future home of the National Museum of the Great Lakes. NMGL will offer the region a comprehensive maritime experience including an over 10,000 sq. ft. hands-on museum, the recently renovated and re-christened museum ship, the S.S. Col. James M. Schoonmaker (formerly the S.S. Willis B. Boyer) and a park complete with maritime artifacts and beautiful landscape. The National Museum of the Great Lakes will begin construction on the building and the adjacent park within the next few weeks and is scheduled to open in the spring of 2014. For more information, please contact Christopher Gillcrist at glhs1@inlandseas or 440.967.3467. Founded in 1944, the Great Lakes Historical Society has been preserving our shared cultural history by publishing a quarterly journal Inland Seas since 1945; by operating a maritime museum and research library since 1952; by offering educational programs to the general public since 1956; and by conducting underwater archaeological research across the Great Lakes since 2001. The opening of the National Museum of the Great Lakes will help the Great Lakes Historical Society continue its mission to preserve and make known the history of the Great Lakes.
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