May 2, 2018
Lyndel King Wins Outstanding Service Award
Congratulations Director Lyndel King!
2018 Recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Service
We are proud to announce that Lyndel King was awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Service, joining an elite group of staff and faculty who have provided exceptional service to the University of Minnesota.
The President’s Award for Outstanding Service is presented each year in the spring and recognizes exceptional service to the University—its schools, colleges, departments, and service units—by any active or retired faculty or staff member. Recipients of this award have gone well beyond their regular duties and have demonstrated an unusual commitment to the University community.
We at the museum believe this is truly a well-deserved recognition and welcome you to join us in celebrating Director King’s achievement. The museum’s excellence and legacy is because of her exceptional work and dedication over the past decades.
American Alliance of Museums Honors Former WAM Director Dr. Lyndel King with 2021 Award for Distinguished Service to Museums
On June 7, at the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting, the Board of Directors of AAM, the only organization representing the entire scope of the museum community, honored Dr. Lyndel King with the Award for Distinguished Service to Museums. This award recognizes Dr. King’s exemplary work as Director and Chief Curator of the…
Director Lyndel King to Retire After Forty Years
Congratulations to director Lyndel King on her retirement! Director and chief curator Lyndel King, announced today that after a forty-year tenure with the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota she will step down from her post in June 2020. “I am planning my departure from the museum because WAM is in a great…
More is More: The Lyndel and Blaine King Collection
February 29, 2020 – February 14, 2021 When my WAM colleagues asked if I would be willing to show the art collection my husband, Blaine, and I have built over the years, my first thought was that we just acquire things that give us pleasure, things we like to have around us. But that is…