Nina Zannieri
A Conversation with Nina Zannieri, Executive Director, Paul Revere Memorial Association on Four Decades of Historic Education and Preservation in Boston, and the Challenges Ahead
With her 40 years of experience as the Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association in Boston, few people have the perspective that Nina does on the way in which Boston and Boston historic sites and organizations carry out their mission of historic education and preservation, including the challenges faced and the changes that have taken place over the last four decades. When Nina announced in May that she would be retiring, I immediately knew that she should be our guest for a conversation at History Camp Boston 2026. Please bring your questions. — Lee Wright, Founder, History Camp and The Pursuit of History
Nina Zannieri, MA, Executive Director, Paul Revere Memorial Association. Since 1986, Nina Zannieri has been the Executive Director of the Paul Revere Memorial Association in Boston, Massachusetts, which owns and operates a now fully accessible complex of three historic buildings that includes the Paul Revere House. Ms. Zannieri has held leadership positions in several national and regional professional museum organizations including American Alliance of Museum, New England Museum Association, and the American Association for State and Local History. In 2015 she received a NEMA Lifetime Achievement Award. She currently sits on the board of the Freedom Trail Foundation, Seamans Port and Aid Society, Harvard University Museum Studies Advisory Board, and is a member of the Boston Green Ribbon Commission Cultural Organization Working Group Leadership team. She received her BA in history from Boston College and her MA in Anthropology/Museum Studies from Brown University.
