| Ruth Abram | Lower East Side Tenement Museum |
Carl Akeley  | American Museum of Natural History and
Field Museum of Natural History |
| William T. Alderson | Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum and AASLH |
| Edward P. Alexander | Colonial Williamsburg and
the Department of Museum Studies, University of Delaware,
AAM Distinguished Service Award (DSA) 1983 |
| Nina Archabal | Minnesota Historical Society |
| Malcolm Arth | American Museum of Natural History |
| Alfred Barr, Jr. | Museum of Modern Art |
| Anna Billings Gallup | Brooklyn Children’s Museum |
| Joel N. Bloom | Franklin Institute Science Museum,
DSA-1993 |
| Franz Boas | American Museum of Natural History and
Field Museum of Natural History |
| John Brademas | United States House of Representatives |
| Laura Bragg | Charleston Museum |
| William P. Braker | Shedd Aquarium |
| J. Carter Brown | National Gallery of Art,
DSA-1993 |
| E. B.Brown | Kimbell Art Museum |
| Rebecca Buck | Newark Museum |
| Charles Buckley | City Art Museum of St. Louis |
| Lonnie Bunch III | National Museum of American History and
National Museum of African American History and Culture |
| Robert Burke | Smithsonian Institution Office of Protective Services |
| Ron Chew | Wing Luke Asian Museum |
| Mildred S. Compton | Children’s Museum of Indianapolis,
DSA-1988 |
| William Conway | Bronx Zoo |
| Kinshasha Holman Conwill | The Studio Museum in Harlem and
National Museum of African American History and Culture |
| John Cotton Dana | Newark Museum |
| Philippe De Montebello | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| C. Douglas Dillon | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Dorothy Dudley | Museum of Modern Art |
| John C. Ewers | National Museum of History and Technology,
DSA-1996 |
| John Falk and Lynn Dierking | Institute for Learning Innovation and Smithsonian Institution |
| Diane Frankel | Institute of Museum and Library Services and
Bay Area Discovery Museum |
| Martin Friedman | Walker Art Center |
| Alan J. Friedman | New York Hall of Science |
| L. Thomas Frye | Oakland Museum of California |
| Edmund Barry Gaither | Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists |
| Kathy Halbreich | Walker Art Center |
| Chauncey Jerome Hamlin | ICOM |
| Nancy Hanks | National Endowment for the Arts |
| Jack Hanna | Columbus Zoo and Aquarium |
| Elaine Heumann Gurian | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
DSA-2004 |
| Irene Hirano | Japanese American National Museum |
| Walter Hopps | Menil Collection |
| Louis C. Jones | New York State Historical Association and
Cooperstown Graduate Program,
DSA-1986 |
| Caroline and Sheldon Keck | NYU Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center and
Cooperstown Graduate Program, Conservation Training Program |
| Steven R. Keller | Art Institute of Chicago |
| John Kinard | Anacostia Neighborhood Museum |
| Thomas W. Leavitt | Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University
DSA-1997 |
| Thomas A. Livesay | Whatcom Museum of History and Art |
| Gregory Long | New York Botanical Garden |
| Robert R. Macdonald | Museum of the City of New York,
DSA-2003 |
| Marie Malaro | Smithsonian Institution and
George Washington University Museum Studies Program |
| Lee Kimche McGrath | Institute of Museum Services and ASTC |
| Kathy McLean | Independent Exhibitions and the Exploratorium |
| Scot Medbury | Brooklyn Botanic Gardens |
| Keith Melder | National Museum of American History |
| Charles Montgomery | Yale University Art Gallery and Winterthur |
| Grace McCann Morley | San Francisco Museum of Art and
ICOM Regional Agency in Asia,
DSA-1984 |
| Helmuth Naumer | Fort Worth Children’s Museum and
National Museum Services Board |
| Arminta Neal | Denver Museum of Natural History |
| Joseph Veach Noble | Museum of the City of New York,
DSA-1991 |
| Frank Oppenheimer | Exploratorium, DSA-1982 |
| Henry Fairfield Osborn | American Museum of Natural History |
| Albert Eide Parr | American Museum of Natural History,
DSA-1980 |
| Claiborne Pell | United States Senate |
| R. Marlin Perkins | Lincoln Park Zoo |
| Paul Perrot | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and
Santa Barbara Museum of Art |
| Bonnie Pitman | Dallas Museum of Art and
Bay Area Discovery Museum |
| George Rabb | Brookfield Zoo |
| Peter H. Raven | Missouri Botanical Garden,
DSA-1999 |
| Edward Preston Richardson | Detroit Institute of Arts,
DSA-1981 |
| S. Dillon Ripley | Smithsonian Institution,
DSA-1985 |
| Edward Stevens Robinson | Yale University |
| Jeri Robinson | Boston Children’s Museum |
Carolyn Rose | Smithsonian Institution’s Anthropology Conservation Lab |
| Paul J. Sachs | Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University |
| Ulysses S. Seal | Minnesota Zoo |
| Alberta Sebolt-George | Old Sturbridge Village,
DSA-2002 |
| Beverly Serrell | Serrell and Associates and Shedd Aquarium |
| Roy Shafer | COSI Columbus |
| Selma Shapiro | Oak Ridge Children’s Museum |
| Cindy Sherrell-Leo | Texas Historical Commission |
| Harold Skramstad, Jr. | Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village |
| Kathy Dwyer Southern | Port Discovery, the Children’s Museum in Baltimore and
the National Children’s Museum |
| Michael Spock | Boston Children’s Museum and
Field Museum of Natural History,
DSA-1994 |
| Kenneth Starr | Milwaukee Public Museum,
DSA-1992 |
| George Stout | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
| Martin Sullivan | Historic St. Mary’s City Commission |
| Holman J. Swinney | Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum,
DSA-1990 |
| Roy Taylor | Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden |
| George Tressel | National Science Foundation |
| Marcia Tucker | New Museum of Contemporary Art |
| James M. Vaughan | National Trust for Historic Preservation and
The Hermitage, the Home of President Andrew Jackson |
| Alexander Wall | Old Sturbridge Village |
| E. Leland Webber | Field Museum of Natural History,
DSA-1989 |
| Jean Weber | Rochester Museum and Science Center |
| Stephen Weil | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
DSA-1995 |
| Jeshajahu "Shaike" Weinberg | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
| W. Richard West, Jr. | National Museum of the American Indian |
| Patterson Williams | Denver Art Museum |
| Otto Wittman | Toledo Museum of Art,
DSA-1987 |
| Sidney Yates | United States House of Representatives |
