DE222 Honoree: Halsey Spruance
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Title: Executive Director
Halsey Spruance
Workplace: Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
Alma Maters: University of Pennsylvania, American University, George Washington University, University of Delaware
Boards: Brandywine Valley National Scenic Byway Advisory Board, Delaware Sea Grant Advisory Council, Fair Play Foundation, Greater Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau, Historic Houses of Odessa, Society of Colonial Wars of the State of Delaware
Q&A: Favorite thing about Delaware? “Rape scrapple.”
As executive director of the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science for the last 16 years, Halsey Spruance manages a 71,000-square-foot museum that reaches 90,000 people annually. He was at the helm of a major $10.8 million renovation of the museum in 2022, which also saw the museum change its name and refocus its exhibits on Delaware’s ecology. The museum holds large collections of mollusks and birds, and the second largest collection of birds’ eggs in North America.
