State Museum CEO/president resigns

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is confirming that the president and CEO of the Indiana State Museum has resigned.

DNR Director Robert Carter tells the Indianapolis Business Journal that Barry Dressel has resigned as head of the museum.

The 62-year-old Dressel was hired in 2007 after the museum went a year with no chief executive. He was the fifth president and CEO at the downtown Indianapolis museum since 2000.

Dressel isn't commenting publicly on his departure.

The DNR says longtime museum staffer Kathleen McLary will take Dressel's place as an interim director.

State funding for the museum has fallen by more than 20 percent since 2007.