CROWN HEIGHTS — The Brooklyn Children’s Museum will have a new leader in the new year, the museum’s board announced Thursday.
Brooklyn native Stephanie Hill Wilchfort will take over the top spot at the Crown Heights institution in early 2015, filling the role of president and chief executive officer after leading the development team at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.
“This really is a dream job,” Wilchfort said in a statement released Thursday. “Throughout my childhood and the childhoods of so many kids growing up in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum has been an inspiration. BCM is a rare institution that has a global reach and deep-rooted ties to the Crown Heights community.”
Wilchfort will oversee the opening of a new rooftop pavilion at the museum this spring and a new 1,700-square-foot studio annex in DUMBO in 2016.
Wilchfort is taking over the job from interim president Mindy Duitz, who returned to the museum in January 2013 after serving as its leader from 1984 to 1994. Before Duitz, Georgina Ngozi had led the museum since 2009.
News of Wilchfort's appointment was first reported by The New York Times.
