Director Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Museum | Cambridge, Massachusetts On behalf of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we are pleased to announce that Michael John Gorman, a museum professional who has created and run several organizations devoted to science and the arts, has been named the new Mark R. Epstein Director of the MIT Museum.Gorman takes over for longtime director John Durant, who has led the museum since 2005 and most recently oversaw the design and construction of the museum’s new purpose-built home in Kendall Square. Gorman is slated to start this summer.Gorman is the founding director of BIOTOPIA -- Naturkundemuseum Bayern, a Munich, Germany-based center for life sciences and the environment. In recent years, he has concentrated on exhibitions, operations, vision, and programming that combines science and the arts, while also serving as a tenured professor at Munich’s Ludwig Maximilians University.Gorman, who is originally from Ireland, previously served as the founding director of Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, a public space dedicated to innovation, science, and the arts. He also served as founder and chief executive of Science Gallery International, a nonprofit that seeks to establish similar galleries with universities on other continents.At MIT Museum, Gorman inherits a dynamic new cultural venue replete with gallery space, forum areas, learning labs, a public maker hub, and collection of some 1.5 million objects. Gorman, who has curated numerous exhibitions over the years, is the author of several books, including “Idea Colliders: The Future of Science Museums,” published by MIT Press in 2020.Andy Lee led this search with Ryan Leichenauer, Clay Batley, and Madeline Fitzpatrick.