Ruth J. Abram Email & Phone Number

Ruth J. Abram founded the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (www.tenement.org), the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (www.sitesofconscience.org), the National Women’s Agenda and Coalition, the Institute on Women’s History, and the traveling exhibition and book “Send Us a Lady Physician: Women Doctors in America, 1835 - 1920.” In 2014, she founded Behold! New Lebanon, the nation’s first living museum of contemporary rural American life. Harnessing the skills and ingenuity of local people who serve as educators, the museum draws an intimate portrait of small town life and makes it accessible to visitors. Abram’s writing has been published by a wide range of publications including The Midwest Poetry Review. The New York Times Book Review, History News The Washington Post, The Public Historian, and The Guardian. A popular speaker, she has appeared before audiences from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, to the Conference Board and the Family Service Association of America. Her numerous media appearances include World News Tonight, The Today Show, and National Public Radio. She has consulted on historic interpretation for museums around the world including the National Park Service, the National Public Housing Museum, several Shaker Museums, Lincoln’s Cottage, Weeksville, the Gulag Museum in Russia, the Liberation War Museum in Bangladesh, and the English Workhouse Museum.Along with David Arnow, Mary C. Boys and Muhammad Shafiq, Ms. Abram produced Exodus Conversations www.exodusconversations.org, a web based multi-faith dialogue on the story of the Exodus as it appears in the Hebrew Bible and the Qu’ran. A collage artist, Ms. Abram conducts art workshops for people of all ages at the New Lebanon Library, and her work has been exhibited in New York City and Upstate New York and is in numerous private collections.

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  Behold! New Lebanon

  Jan 2014 - Feb 2015