People who have founded museums through organization, or through benefaction of money and/or their collections. Museums organized through benefaction are typically named after the benefactor, and articles here should include information on the museum concerned.
Pages in category "Museum founders"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 292 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Makbule Abasıyanık
- Anders Åberg
- Sofia Adamson
- Haryanto Adikoesoemo
- Max Adler (Sears)
- Louis Agassiz
- William Aiton
- Sunay Akın
- Larry Aldrich
- Annie Montague Alexander
- Amos Anderson
- Margaret Anderson (museum creator)
- Margery Anneberg
- Clara Apodaca
- George Armour
- Dave Arnold
- Elias Ashmole
- Hans Rasmus Astrup (born 1939)
- Edward E. Ayer
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- D'Army Bailey
- P. T. Barnum
- Edith Barry
- Florence Dibell Bartlett
- Sonja Bata
- Ken Behring
- Gloria Bejarano Almada
- Joe Berardo
- Pierre Bergé
- Henriette Mayer van den Bergh
- Albert S. Bickmore
- Safeya Binzagr
- James Bisset (artist)
- Dmytro Blazheyovskyi
- Mildred Barnes Bliss
- Robert Woods Bliss
- Christian Boros
- Napoléon Bourassa
- Francis Bourgeois
- Henry Collins Brown
- Lyde Browne (antiquary)
- Avery Brundage
- Diethild Buchheim
- Lothar-Günther Buchheim
- Frieder Burda
C
- Bertha Calloway
- Moïse de Camondo
- Bob Cassilly
- Julie Amelie Charlotte Castelnau
- Guillermo Ceniceros
- Rhea Chiles
- Edward Eugene Claplanhoo
- Henry Cole (inventor)
- W. G. Collingwood
- William Wilson Corcoran
- Teodoro Correr
- Douglas S. Cramer
- Josephine B. Crane
- Philip J. Currie
- Robert B. Cutler
- Izabela Czartoryska
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- Robert Haas (investor)
- Johannes Hage
- Armand Hammer
- Ann Harithas
- James Harithas
- Eric Harvie
- George W. Headley
- Phoebe Hearst
- Reuben Hecht
- Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr.
- Léocadie Hersent-Penquer
- Pierre Marie Heude
- George Gustav Heye
- Bruce Hodgins
- Jan Hoet
- Wilhelmina Holladay
- Louisa Holthuysen
- Thomas Coglan Horsfall
- Frank L. Horton
- Hsin Tao
- Arabella Huntington
- Archer Milton Huntington
- Henry E. Huntington
- Charles L. Hutchinson
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- Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
- Paul Marciano
- Jules Marcou
- Marion Speer
- Kate Marsden
- David Ross McCord
- Philippe Méaille
- Leopoldo de' Medici
- Andrew Mellon
- Dominique de Menil
- John de Menil
- Daniel Merriman
- Helen Bigelow Merriman
- Countess Monika zu Solms-Laubach
- Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet
- Raphael Montañez Ortiz
- Minoru Mori
- Robert Mouawad
- Hendrik Muller Szn.