Francis Henry Taylor (1903–1957) was a distinguished American museum director and curator, who served as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for fifteen years.
In 1931 he became director of the Worcester Art Museum Massachusetts, before joining the Metropolitan Museum in New York City as its director in 1940.
[1][2] Sometimes described as a showman, he developed a theory of the museum as an institution of active public service, not simply a repository of art.
He was credited with doubling the number of people visiting the museum, up to 2.3 million a year.
[3] Taylor died at the Memorial Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts on November 23, 1957.