Meredith Miller has been promoted to Director of Collections at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. Her responsibilities include the curatorial collection of the Cosmosphere, care and maintenance of artifacts, exhibits, and loans to other museums and exhibitors.

Miller began working at the Cosmosphere in 2007 as Collections Manager. She provides curatorial guidance on all Cosmosphere exhibits, as well as exhibits built for others such as the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Ore.; and NASA: A Human Adventure, an international traveling exhibit built for John Nurminen Events.

“Meredith fostered the business relationship with Nurminen executives and supervised the installation of loaned Cosmosphere artifacts when the exhibit opened in Stockholm, Sweden, last year, and Madrid, Spain, earlier this year,” said Jim Remar, President and Chief Operating Officer for the Cosmosphere. “She will continue to support the exhibition at its third opening in Istanbul, Turkey, this fall.

“Meredith is much more than a curator, she also is a key team member for many of our SpaceWorks projects,” Remar said. “SpaceWorks has an international reputation for replicating, preserving and restoring historic space artifacts,” Remar continued. “Meredith has been keenly involved with a recent project for SpaceWorks to design and build a cradle mount for the Mercury spacecraft, Freedom 7, at its new temporary location, the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston.”

In addition to her work at the Cosmosphere, Miller is active on the museum circuit as a lecturer on legal and ethical issues facing museums. She has served as a conference panelist for the Mountain Plains Museum Association and Mutual Concerns of the National Air Space Museum.

Miller has a bachelor’s degree in history from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and a master’s degree in museum studies from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. She has more than 10 years of museum experience, having worked for the National Park Service, American Red Cross Museum, Living History Farms (Iowa), the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum, and as curator for the Rehoboth Beach Historical Society in Delaware.

The Smithsonian-affiliated Cosmosphere houses the world’s largest collection of U.S. and Russian spacecraft and artifacts outside the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum in Washington, DC. The Cosmosphere’s collection includes the original Apollo 13 capsule, Odyssey, and the Mercury capsule Liberty Bell 7.