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Amanda Skier
Executive Director and CEO
Henry Morrison Flagler Museum · Palm Beach, FL
Historic preservation leader Amanda Skier has been named Executive Director and CEO of the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum.
Most recently, Skier served at the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach as President and CEO. During her tenure, she solidified the Foundation’s position as one of the leading advocacy and education organizations for historic preservation in the country. Through community engagement and digital platforms, she championed local educational initiatives focusing on resiliency and landscape stewardship. Under her leadership, the Foundation’s archives doubled in size and informed six organization-led publications that further scholarship on Palm Beach. She also led two capital campaigns to revitalize historic parks on the island: Bradley Park and Phipps Ocean Park. As the largest project in the organization’s history, Skier spearheaded the park’s design and approval, negotiated a long-term public/private partnership with the Town of Palm Beach, and raised almost $40 million for the project over the last three years.
Skier serves on the University of Florida’s Historic Preservation Board of Advocates and the City of West Palm Beach Historic Preservation Board, where she has held the position of Chair since 2016, and previously served as a Trustee for the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.
Whitehall, Henry Flagler’s Gilded Age estate in Palm Beach, is open to the public as the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, featuring guided tours, changing exhibits and special programs. It is one of only four sites in the nation to be awarded all three of the highest honors given to historic sites: designation as a National Historic Landmark, accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, and presentation of the Ross Merrill Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections.