Press Releases

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Post Annual Meeting – Toronto Press Release (6/18/09)

University of Florida President Calls Art Museum "Essential" to Higher Education (4/15/09)

2009 State of North America's Art Museums Survey Results  04/03/09 (pdf)

Joint Statement of the AAMD and the National Academy 3/11/09

AAMD Statement on the Denver Art Museum

Post Midwinter Meeting - San Diego - Press Release. 2/1/09 (pdf)

Association of Art Museum Directors Announces Janet Landay to Be New Executive Director 1/26/09 (pdf)

AAMD Statement on the National Academy (12/5/08)

2008 State of North America's Art Museums Survey Results  08/19/08 (pdf)

New Report on Acquisition of Archaeological Materials and Ancient Art  06/03/2008

Statement in Response to Allegations Concerning Some California Museums  02/01/2008

Written Testimony on Diversity submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee  10/09/2007

Statement Concerning Randolph College and the Maier Museum of Art 10/04/2007

2007 State of North America's Art Museums Survey Results  05/07/07 (pdf)

2006 State of North America's Art Museums Survey Results 05/03/06 (pdf)

AAMD Symposium "Museums and the Collecting of Antiquities: Past, Present, and Future" 4/4/06

AAMD Membership Survey on Antiquities Collecting  02/07/2006 (pdf)

Statement Concerning the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Negotiations with the Italian Government, 2/03/06 (pdf )

2005 State of North America's Art Museums Survey Results  04/07/05 (pdf)

AAMD Issues a Resolution on Michael Heizer's City  02/07/05 (pdf)

AAMD Statement on Court's Amended Ruling on the Barnes Foundation 01/31/05 (pdf)

AAMD Statement on Court's Ruling on the Barnes Foundation 12/13/2004 (pdf)

AAMD Statement on the Barnes Foundation, 10/26/04 updated, posted 1/30/04 (pdf document: 61K)

2004 State of the Nation's Art Museums Survey Results, 3/23/04 (pdf document: 515KB)

Iraq Statement, 4/16/03 (pdf document: 512K)

AAMD Releases Survey on State of the Nation's Art Museums, 4/10/03 (pdf document: 239K)

AAMD Releases Survey on State of the Nation's Art Museums, 1/17/02 (pdf document: 530K)

Statement on the issuance of the report by the President's Commission on Holocaust Assets in the US, 1/16/01

AAMD Statement on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, 3/1/01

AAMD Statement on City Funding of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 9/23/99

SAM to Return Matisse Odalisque to Rosenbergs, 6/14/99

AAMD votes to officially reaffirm the guidelines for dealing with Holocaust-era art, 2/9/99