Age of Steam Roundhouse hires executive director NEWSWIRE

SUGARCREEK, Ohio — A Pennsylvania museum director has been named executive director of the Age of Steam Roundhouse and the Jerry and Laura Jacobson Foundation. Noel B. Poirier began his new duties on July 16. Poirier had been executive director of the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia, Pa. for the past 10 years.

Poirier worked for Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, two living history farms, and Historic Bethlehem Partnership in Pennsylvania prior to joining the National Watch and Clock Museum, which he helped attain accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums.

Bill Strawn, chairman and president of the Jacobson Foundation, said Poirier was selected following a nationwide search. “His proven leadership, museum development skills, and demonstrated forward vision will introduce Jerry Jacobson’s steam locomotive collection and historically constructed facility for public viewing and appreciation,” Strawn said in a statement. Strawn went on to say that Poirier’s selection will help move Jerry Jacobson’s vision for the collection and the roundhouse forward.

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