Highlights of Sandall’s short time at the Morris Museum have included Timeless Movements, the final installment in a four-year automata series entitled A Cache of Kinetic Art Art in the Atrium’s 30th anniversary show virtual reality installations (also concluding next month) by Federico Solmi and securing more than $200,000 in historic preservation and COVID grants. “I think it’s bringing interesting things that people in this community will enjoy seeing, things they wouldn’t normally get to see, seeing a different angle,” he said at the opening of another rock and roll retrospective, by Jay Blakesberg, which runs through Feb. citizen born in the United Kingdom, had seemed intent on continuing that momentum.
Another exhibit traced the story of a ukulele that crossed the North Pole with explorer Richard Byrd.
Bob Gruen’s photos of rock icons were featured. The place offered surprises, and became fun. A partnership was forged with Art in the Atrium Inc., a nonprofit championing works by Black artists. Jazz concerts atop the parking deck proved popular during the pandemic. Photo courtesy of the Morris Commissioners.ĭuring Johnson’s tenure, the museum became the state’s only one affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Morris Museum Executive Director Andrew Sandall excepts Small Business Grant from then-Morris Commissioner Director Tafun Selen in 2022. Modern kinetic art was showcased alongside the 750-piece trove of antique music boxes and instruments, acquired in 2003 under director Steven Miller. The museum crafted a mission statement, Interpreting the past, discovering the future, through Art, Sound, and Motion, which sought to build upon the Guinness Collection. On his watch, a museum that for generations largely had been a destination for school field trips, with a hodge-podge of gemstones, Native America artifacts and dinosaur bones, began to stake out a new identity. Chief Financial Officer Connie Read filled in as interim in 2017, a full-time director was announced, only to be dropped days later without explanation.Ĭleveland Johnson, an Oxford-educated musical scholar, served from 2017 until his retirement in 2021. The Morris Museum’s revolving door started spinning in 2016, when Linda Moore left after six years. Morris County has much to be proud of with the only Smithsonian affiliate in the whole of New Jersey right on its doorstep!” REVOLVING DOOR “I’m very excited to see where the museum goes in the future after all the hard work me, the staff and the trustees have put into becoming much more aligned with the needs of the local community since I arrived. “It has been an amazing last year at the Morris Museum, and I can’t thank our supporters enough for the enthusiasm they’ve shown and the welcome they gave me since I arrived,” said Sandall, reached via email. The museum dates to 1913, and occupies the Twin Oaks Mansion, former estate of the Frelinghuysen family. Andrew Sandall is leaving after about a year as executive director of the Morris Museum. Trustees are considering next steps that “will be announced when appropriate,” the statement concluded.
The chairman wished Sandall well, noting the museum will miss his “professionalism and depth of experience.” “Andy’s brief tenure has helped to focus the Morris Museum’s mission to provide educational and cultural opportunities to the greater Morristown community more than ever before,” said Board Chair Edward von der Linde, in a brief statement responding to an inquiry from Morristown Green. Prior to coming to the Morris Museum in January 2022, he spent a decade in Florida as executive director of the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach. Sandall is departing in late February, after little more than a year, to become CEO at The Bishop Museum of Science and Naturein Bradenton, FL. Photo courtesy of the Morris County Commissioners. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata. He is the fifth person since 2016 to head the museum, best known for its Murtogh D. Again.Īndrew Sandall, hired as executive director just over a year ago, is leaving next month. The Morris Museum in Morris Township is in the market for a new leader.
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