Press Releases & Statements

AAMD Member Museums to Celebrate Art Museum Day on May 18

New York, NY
April 10, 2013

On May 18, Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) member museums across the United States, Canada, and Mexico will offer free or reduced admission, special programs, and other initiatives as part of their annual celebration of Art Museum Day.

In 2012, AAMD launched an initiative encouraging visitors of all ages to share their experiences of Art Museum Day through social media. Last year’s event prompted an outpouring of tweets, “check-ins” via FourSquare, Facebook posts, and other personal responses from across North America. This year AAMD is again encouraging visitors to share their experiences on May 18 on social media platforms with the hashtag #ArtMuseumDay and through special events on Facebook and Foursquare. 

 “Whether through exhibitions that connect us to other cultures or public programs that introduce new ideas, museums draw communities together in a shared experience of human creativity and expression.” said Christine Anagnos, Executive Director of AAMD. “This Art Museum Day, AAMD encourages everyone to discover their connection to the arts by visiting their local museum and sharing their experiences in a public forum.”

AAMD’s Art Museum Day coincides with International Museum Day, organized annually around the world by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Participation by AAMD member museums emphasizes the lasting impact art museums have on their communities, highlights the value of the visual arts in society, and provides opportunities for audiences to participate in wide-ranging programs and share their encounters with works of art.

Museums participating in AAMD’s Art Museum Day in 2013 include:

 

Ackland Art Museum

Akron Art Museum

AMOA-Arthouse

Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Andy Warhol Museum

Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Institute of Chicago

Asia Society Museum

Asian Art Museum

Aspen Art Museum

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Brandywine River Museum

Burchfield Penney Art Center

Canadian Centre for Architecture

Carnegie Museum of Art

Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

Columbia Museum of Art

Columbus Museum of Art

Corning Museum of Glass

Crocker Art Museum

Currier Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art

David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art

Delaware Art Museum

Denver Art Museum

Des Moines Art Center

Detroit Institute of Arts

Dixon Gallery and Gardens

El Paso Museum of Art

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Flint Institute of Arts

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art

Frick Art and Historical Center

Georgia Museum of Art

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Grand Rapids Art Museum

Grey Art Gallery

Hammer Museum

Harvard Art Museums

Henry Art Gallery

High Museum of Art

Hillwood Estate, Museum, and Gardens

Hood Museum of Art

Hunter Museum of Art

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

J. Paul Getty Museum

Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art

Kimbell Art Museum

List Visual Arts Center

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Meadows Museum

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Mississippi Museum of Art

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

Museo Arocena

Museo Tamayo

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Museum of Glass

Museum of Latin American Art

Museum of Modern Art

Nasher Sculpture Center

National Museum of Women in the Arts

New Orleans Museum of Art

Noguchi Museum

Orlando Museum of Art

Palmer Museum of Art

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Portland (Oregon) Art Museum

Princeton University Art Museum

Reynolda House Museum of American Art

RISD Museum

Saint Louis Art Museum

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art

San Antonio Museum of Art

San Diego Museum of Art

San Jose Museum of Art

Seattle Art Museum

Smith College Museum of Art

Spencer Museum of Art

Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute

Studio Museum in Harlem

Tacoma Art Museum

Taft Museum of Art

The Bronx Museum of the Arts

The Columbus Museum

The Drawing Center

The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia

The Frick Collection

The Menil Collection

The Mint Museum

The Phillips Collection

The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University

The Wolfsonian

Toledo Museum of Art

University of Iowa Museum of Art

Vero Beach Museum of Art

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Wadsworth Atheneum

Walker Art Center

Weisman Art Museum

Westmoreland Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

Worcester Art Museum

Yale University Art Gallery

 

A comprehensive list of participating AAMD member art museums is available at the AAMD website (https://aamd.org/our-members/from-the-field/art-museum-day-2013/).  Note that while ICOM’s International Museum Day is formally held each year on May 18, some institutions shift their celebrations to adjacent dates.

Art Museum Day is an opportunity to focus attention on the role of art museums in North America as part of a larger worldwide initiative. ICOM’s International Museum Day (http://icom.museum/imd.html) has been celebrated globally since 1977, to encourage public focus on the museum as “an institution in the service of society and of its development.” Each year a theme is selected for International Museum Day that highlights the social significance of museums. ICOM’s theme for 2013 is “museums (memory + creativity) = social change.”

The Association of Art Museum Directors, representing 224 art museum directors in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, aids its members in establishing and maintaining the highest professional standards for themselves and the museums they represent.  It serves as a forum for the exchange of information and the exploration of ideas, and as a voice with which museum directors may express their joint perspectives and those of their institutions. Further information about AAMD is available at www.aamd.org.

Contact

Alison Wade
Association of Art Museum Directors
212-754-8084

Chelsea Beroza
Resnicow Schroeder Associates
212-671-5160