Vintage motorcycles, Abraham Lincoln, baseball, the paintings of Nikolai Getman, and treasures from the Walt Disney Archives at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum were among the exhibition subjects Andrew Wulf staged during his five years as curator at the National Archives. A proudly proclaimed man of many interests, Wulf is the new director of the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors. He succeeds longtime director Frances Levine, who is now president of the Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, and interim director Jon Hunner, professor of history at New Mexico State University.

Before his time at the National Archives, during which he also supervised a $12 million renovation of the Ronald Reagan Library, he was curator of special collections at the University of Southern California for six years. His educational credentials include bachelor’s degrees in international relations and French and a master’s in art history, all from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in museum studies from the University of Leicester, England. Wulf also studied philology at the Sorbonne and medieval architecture at London’s Courtauld Institute of Art. He is a recent graduate of the Getty Leadership Institute for Museum Executives. His book, U.S. International Exhibitions During the Cold War: Winning Hearts and Minds Through Cultural Diplomacy, was published in January by Rowman & Littlefield.

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