Milwaukee Public Museum
[3] The newly formed Board of Trustees hired Carl Doerflinger to be the museum's first director and rented space to place exhibits.[3] To further this goal, Samuel A. Barrett, the recipient of the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by the University of California, was selected to head an anthropology-history department.Barrett used the Works Progress Administration and other New Deal programs to keep the museum running and to create employment beyond the existing staff.The current site is at 800 W. Wells Street,[1] a block north of the old Museum-Library building, still the home of the Milwaukee Central Library, which continued to house exhibits until 1966.Employee wages and benefits were reduced, but private donations expanded and the county's share of costs was diminished.In 2006, charges were filed against former museum chief financial officer Terry Gaouette, following the revelation that the museum was several million dollars in the red, a fact that allegedly had been hidden for years by illegal money transfers.[12] Ellen Censky had been named the interim president and CEO while the MPM Board of Directors conducted a nationwide search for the position.
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