Richard Franz Bach (1888-1968) was an American curator with the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In this position, Bach's main role was to facilitate use of the Museum’s collections as practical resources by manufacturers, designers, artisans, and craftsmen.
Bach was also primarily responsible for organizing a series of popular exhibitions devoted to American industrial art.
The purpose of the program was "to reach people in outlying districts [...] for whom a visit to the Museum seems a journey," "to serve crowded quarters of the city in which facilities for recreation and enjoyment are limited," and "to make available to the high schools of the city original objects of art which may serve as source material for study in relation to regular school subjects.
"[3] The program included over fifty installations in four boroughs, drawing an attendance of over 1.5 million visitors in the first five years, and was installed in various public locations including "three settlement houses, thirteen high schools, six library branches, four colleges, one museum, two "Y" branches, and one City administration building."