Curator of Permanent Exhibitions ​

Peabody Museum, Harvard University, “Hall of the North American Indian: Change and Continuity,” 1990–present
​Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, “The Things They Left Behind: Archaeology and Native Americans,” permanent exhibit, installed 1990 
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Curator of Temporary Exhibits

​Alabama Museum of Natural History, The University of Alabama, “Avery Island, Home of Tabasco Brand Pepper Sauce,” 2001
Alabama Museum of Natural History, The University of Alabama, “Life Forms in Clay: Effigy Pots of Southeastern Indians,” 1997
Alabama Museum of Natural History, The University of Alabama, “The Indians of Mound Island: Archaeology in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta,” (Richard S. Fuller and Ian W. Brown), 1996
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, “Lewis & Clark: The Corps of Discovery,” 1990 
Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, “Lewis & Clark: The Corps of Discovery,” 1989
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, “Soft Gold: Captain Cook ‘Discovers’ the Northwest Coast,” 1985
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Articles and Catalogs Relating to Exhibitions 

1997    Life Forms in Clay. Nature South, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 5-8.

1995    The Mystery of Mound Island, by Richard S. Fuller and Ian W. Brown. Nature South, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 5-10.

1993    The River and Southeastern Indians. Nature South, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 7-10.

​1992    Making of the Hall of the North American Indian at the Peabody Museum: Some Thoughts on the Process, by Richard V. Riccio and Ian W. Brown. Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 11, pp. 229-234.

1990    Hall of the North American Indians, by Hillel S. Burger (photographer), Ian W. Brown (introduction and object captions) and Barbara Isaac (editor). Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University.​