List of directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art information
Director of Metropolitan Museum of Art
Incumbent Max Hollein since 2018
Reports to
President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Formation
1879
First holder
Luigi Palma di Cesnola
Salary
$2,690,207 (2017)[1]
The Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the director of the museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. With 6,953,927 visitors to its three locations in 2018, it was the third most visited art museum in the world.[2] Its permanent collection contains over two million works,[3] divided among seventeen curatorial departments.[4] The director, currently Max Hollein, is responsible for acting as a "curator, lawyer and diplomat", according to The Wall Street Journal. They produce around 40 exhibits at the museum a year, manage the museums' approximately 2,200 employees, and oversee the collection and curatorial departments.[5]
The Director currently reports to Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO of the Museum. The director typically has had a large degree of autonomy in operation, with Philippe de Montebello refusing to report to then president and CEO William Macomber in 1977.[6] It has generally been the highest-ranking official in the museum's leadership, with the director serving as president. On June 13, 2017, the Met announced the reestablishment of a separate museum president, higher than the director.[7]
Past directors have historically been prominent figures in the art world. Past directors include: United States consul at Larnaca in Cyprus and Medal of Honor recipient Luigi Palma di Cesnola, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, secretary of the Art Commission of Boston and director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Edward Robinson, Parks Commissioner of New York City Thomas Hoving, and director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Max Hollein.
^"Form 990" (PDF). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2017.
^The Art Newspaper, April 2019
^"Metropolitan Museum Launches New and Expanded Web Site" Archived November 28, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, press release, The Met, January 25, 2000
^"The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Curatorial Departments". Archived from the original on December 1, 2012. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
^Crow, Kelly (April 11, 2018). "Life & Arts -- Art: Metropolitan Museum Names New Director". The Wall Street Journal.
^"Meet Max Hollein, the Metropolitan Museum's New Director". Vogue. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
^Pogrebin, Robin (June 13, 2017). "Met Museum Changes Leadership Structure". The New York Times.
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