Grant to retire from museum - Westfair Communications

The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum board of trustees has announced the retirement of Executive Director Jacqueline Grant. She has been on the museum”™s staff for 17 years.

The museum has an outdoor discovery center and a wildlife education center in Cornwall-on-Hudson. Grant led the development of four educational trails on the 177-acre Outdoor Discovery Center property and the opening of an accessible visitor”™s center.

She led the expansion of the Young Naturalist Preschool with the addition of new classroom space and was instrumental in developing Grasshopper Grove, the Hudson Valley”™s first natural play area.

Susan Christensen, the board chair, credits Grant for the museum”™s expansion “from a neighborhood resource to being a regional destination, with a peerless nature-based preschool, a strong management team, and a fabulous cohort of nature educators.”