Adam Rozan is the director of programs and audience development at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. He has held many museum roles, working at institutions including the Oakland Museum of California, Harvard Art Museums, Boston Children’s Museum, and Boston’s Museum of Science. Before joining the Smithsonian, Rozan was director of audience engagement at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts.
Rozan is widely recognised as an audience-engagement innovator, a champion of change, and an advocate for guests. He teaches an audience engagement seminar at the Harvard University extension school’s museum studies programme, for which he is an advisory board member. Additionally, Rozan is a founding member of the International Audience Engagement network and lectures on the topic across the world.
Opened in January 1964 as the National Museum of History and Technology, the National Museum of American History is responsible for the acquisition, care and preservation of more than 1.7 million objects and 22,000 feet of archival documents. These represent the nation’s heritage in the areas of science, technology, society and culture.