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Honoring and Recognizing Viki Sand.
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WHEREAS, For eight years, Viki Sand has served as Executive Director and CEO of the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent Museum. She brought to Atwater Kent Museum a proud record of experience and wisdom. Prior to joining Atwater Kent Museum, she was Executive Director of the Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History in Weston, Massachusetts, and the Shaker Museum and Library in Old Chatham; and
WHEREAS, During Viki Sand's tenure, the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent Museum operations, partnerships and collaborations with City government, cultural partners, and the broader community have flourished. With the Museum's extraordinary collection as the foundation, Viki Sand has overseen the development of 19 exhibitions and 56 public programs providing historical perspective for contemporary issues including Experience Philadelphia! Featuring the world's largest map of the City; Baseball in Philadelphia 1876-2004; The Chinese Restaurant in America; The Real Thing and Why It Matters; How Philly Works: Streets as Barometers of Urban Life; and So, what's the story about violence in Philadelphia?; and
WHEREAS, The Philadelphia History Museum is completing construction of a $5.8 million renovation to the Museum building, added significantly to the 100,000 item Philadelphia History Collection, raised $750,000 to develop and outfit an off-site Collection Research Center to accommodate the entire collection, generated significant federal and private funds to support curriculum-based education programs for school students in all grades, produced an 18-minute DVD, Philadelphia Experience (2009) presenting 300 years of Philadelphia history, and participated in programmatic collaborations with the Free Library of Philadelphia, the National History Day Philly, and Quest for Freedom programs now included in the National Park Service Network to Freedom; and
WHEREAS, Viki Sand has worked tire...
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