MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART
Andrew Dunehoo appointed Executive Director
Dunehoo has more than twenty years of experience in museum leadership, historical interpretation and education, curation, art exhibitions, and program development. He was formerly director of museums and cultural affairs at Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation in Custer, South Dakota, where he worked since 2017. The Memorial protects and preserves the culture, tradition and living heritage of the North American Indians. It includes the world’s largest sculptural undertaking, a carving of Lakota leader Crazy Horse; it provides educational and cultural programming; and it is a repository for American Indian artifacts, arts and crafts at The Indian Museum of North America. The site welcomes several hundred thousand visitors annually.
Dunehoo’s career includes managing the Town of Windsor Museum and Art and Heritage Center in Windsor, Colorado. He was director of library and museum services for the City of Fort Morgan in Colorado and historical interpreter for the Johnson County Museum of History in Shawnee, Kansas. He also worked as an adjunct professor for the University of South Dakota/Indian University of North America.
He served many years on regional and national boards and committees for museum professionals. He is currently board president of the Mountain Plains Museums Association and serves as spokesman for the museum profession across a 10-state region.
Dunehoo has a master’s degree in history with an emphasis in material culture studies from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a bachelor’s degree in history from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas.