Robert Garfinkle

Biography

Robert Garfinkle directs the Science and Social Change Program at the Science Museum of Minnesota, creating exhibits and programs that explore the intersection of science and social issues. Robert led the project team that created RACE: Are We So Different?, a landmark exhibition about race, racism, and human variation that opened at SMM in January 2007 and is currently showing at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. Robert has led the development of three other national traveling exhibitions and developed and directed numerous smaller projects. Before working in museums Robert served as a policy analyst at the congressional Office of Technology Assessment.