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Lamont Moore

American museum director; member of the Monuments Men (1909-1988)

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Moore remained active with the MFAA as Administrative Officer and Assistant Secretary-Treasurer for the Roberts Commission beginning in February 1946. In 1947 he was named associate director of the American Academy in Rome. He remained in Rome for only one year, and then embarked on a long career at Yale University. There, he served as associate director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1948 to 1953, and then succeeded his mentor, John Marshall Phillips, as Director after Phillips’s unexpected death in 1953. Moore also taught a graduate course at Yale University on museum techniques and administration. He remained at Yale University until 1957. (English)
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Newark Museum of Art and Science
Upon his return to the United States, he enrolled in a Museum Technique course at the Newark Museum of Art and Science in New Jersey, where he studied the care and preservation of cultural objects. (English)
8 May 2022

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