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Janet Rockenbaugh

Museum Specialist/Collections Manager
Exhibitions and Collections Management Office
Role in Museum: 

Serves as collections manager for developing exhibitions; assists with deinstallation of existing exhibits related to the Central Core project.

Projects: 

Exhibit Installations

  • Communities in a Changing Nation (collection manager)
  • Within These Walls . .
  • September 11: Bearing Witness to History (collection manager)
  • September 11: Bearing Witness to History traveling exhibition
  • Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education(collection manager)
  • Price of Freedom: America at War

Exhibit De-installations

  • Life in America: After the Revolution
  • A Material World
  • September 11: Bearing Witness to History
  • Ceramics Hall
  • American Encounters
  • Hall of Money and Medals