After the JNEM project, Wright became an Assistant Chief at the Office of Exhibits Programs on 2 June 1963 at the Smithsonian Institution.[2] Among his duties in this role was making plans regarding exhibits at the National Museum of Natural History, for which he had the title "senior museologist" by 1965,[3] and became an assistant director from 1971 to 1972 and developed the insect zoo. He also taught museology at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., during the early 70's. After he left the position of assistant director at NMNH, he became a writer and editor for the Office of the Exhibits.[4] He retired in 1975, but continued to direct the Museum Studies Program at GWU until 1978. He died in 1987.[1]
Wright, A. Gilbert (1951). Common Illinois Insects. Story of Illinois series, No. 8. Springfield, Illinois: Illinois State Museum.
Wright AG, Kalmenoff M (1967). In the steps of the great American herpetologist, Karl Patterson Schmidt. New York: M. Evans. (information from WorldCat, as mentioned in: Sebesta SL, Iverson WJ (1975). Literature for Thursday's Child. Science Research Associates. p. 356. ISBN0-574-18615-8 – via Internet Archive.)