Rebekah Beaulieu appointed Louise Taft Semple President/CEO
The Board of Trustees of the Taft Museum is pleased to announce the selection of Rebekah Beaulieu as the Museum’s next Louise Taft Semple President and CEO. Beaulieu currently serves as the Director of the Florence Griswold Museum, an AAM-accredited National Historic Landmark house museum and modern exhibition space dedicated to American art, history, and landscape in Old Lyme, CT, where since her appointment in 2018, she has made substantive changes in the depth of programming and connection to the community. She also serves as an Accreditation Commissioner from the American Alliance of Museums, Vice-President of the New England Museum Association, Treasurer of the American Association for State and Local History, and series editor for the AASLH imprint from Rowman & Littlefield Press. She is the author of Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and Endowment Essentials for Museums (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022).