AAMD has been tracking the COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation daily, and we will continue that practice of providing information here for our membership and the museum field during this period of uncertainty. We will continue to update this site as more resources become available.

Emergency Funding resources

• Small Business Administration (SBA) video tutorial on Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) application (March 31, 2021) This video includes a thorough overview of eligibility requirements, application process, use of funds, documentation, etc. Important note: all applicants may submit their applications as soon as the portal opens on April 8, and the SBA will process applications in rolling order although funds will be awarded in traches based on percentage of revenue decline. Therefore, regardless of the trache into which applicants may fall, they should submit applications as soon as possible. The application process is complicated and applicants are advised to begin preparing in advance. 
• AAMD joins Coalition of Nonprofits Calling on Congress to Act Quickly to Pass Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief Legislation (September 10, 2020)
• FAQs on PPP Loan Forgiveness (Small Business Administration, August 4, 2020)
• Main Street Lending Program for Nonprofit Organizations (Federal Reserve, July 30, 2020)
• Federal Reserve Board modifies Main Street Lending Program to provide greater access to credit for nonprofit organizations (July 17, 2020) The Federal Reserve Board has approved two new loan options under the Main Street Lending Program to support nonprofit organizations.  The terms reflect public feedback,, including from AAMD, to the proposals released for comment on June 15.  The minimum employment threshold was lowered from 50 employees to 10, the limit on donation-based funding was eased, and several financial eligibility criteria were adjusted to accommodate a wider range of nonprofit operating models.  Under the original proposal, organizations were ineligible if revenue from donations in 2019 exceeded 30% of total revenue; that has been raised to 40% and "donations" now clearly exclude government and foundation grants.  However, loans would not be forgivable, and the terms still would be onerous for many nonprofits.
• Urgent Nonprofit Policy Priorities in Reforms to CARES Act (July 13, 2020) Letter signed by AAMD outlining #Relief4Charities asks
• Comments to the Federal Reserve from AAMD regarding nonprofit access to the Main Street Lending Program (June 22, 2020):AAMD submitted comments to the Federal Reserve regarding its proposal to implement a loan program, authorized by the CARES Act, that would assist "mid-sized" nonprofits with as few as 50 employees and as many as 15,000. Note that this is separate from the PPP program, which is run by the SBA.  Chief among our comments: 

  - do away with the provision limiting eligibility to organizations whose 2019 revenue from donations (individual, corporate, and foundation, and possibly even government grants) amounts to no more than 30% of total;

  - make loans forgivable;

  - allow flexibility with respect to payroll requirements; and

  - extend the program to organizations with fewer than 50 employees.

• Urgent Request from the Nonprofit Community forGuidance on the Paycheck Protection Program (National Council of Nonprofits, June 17) AAMD has joined an urgent request for guidance on PPP, signed by 19 national organizations from various subsectors of the nonprofit community, asking the Small Business Administration and Department of Treasury to provide the guidance, answers, and actions on a series of questions that will enable nonprofits to continue serving the communities who rely on us daily.
• Webinar: SBA Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness Issues for Museums and Libraries (IMLS, June 9)
• Interim Guidance on PPP Flexibility Act (SBA, June 8)
• PPP Interim Final Rule: Requirements for Loan Forgiveness (Small Business Administration)
• Recording: IMLS Webinar on SBA Paycheck Protection Program Issues for Museums and Libraries (May 12)
• $15 Million in IMLS CARES Act Grants Now Available for Museum and Library Services June 12 due date (IMLS, May 8)
• New CARES Act program offers up to $300,000 grants to stabilize humanities organizations nationwide (NEH, April 20)
• The Arts Sector and COVID-19 (letter signed by AAMD and other associations, May 22, 2020)
• IMLS Authorizes New Grant Flexibilities for Libraries, Museums (April 6)
• CARES ACT: How to Apply for Nonprofit Relief Funds (Independent Sector, March 30)
• National Endowment for the Arts CARES Act Funding guidelines (deadline to apply has passed)

• National Endowment for the Arts FAQs and Information for Applicants and Grantees in response to COVID-19
• PPP Loan Info and Guidelines (Small Business Administration)
• FAQs on paid leave requirements for small and midsize businesses, as required by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Department of Treasury)

• FAQs – Funding for NEH Applicants and Grantees Impacted by the Coronavirus (National Endowment for the Humanities)

Museum and art-world specific resources

• COVID-19 Research Partnership to Inform Safe Handling of Collections, Reopening Practices for Libraries, Museums (IMLS, April 22)
• Resources and Information for the Museum Field on COVID-19 (American Alliance of Museums)
• Mitigating COVID-19 When Managing Paper-Based, Circulating, and Other Types of Collections (CDC/IMLS webinar from March 30)

• Coronavirus Cancellation Watch: An Up-to-the-Minute Guide to How the Global Health Crisis Is Rewriting the 2020 Art Calendar (artnet News)

Staffing and remote work resources

• Re-opening with equity in mind (Recording of Association of Science and Technology Centers Webinar, May 19, 2020)
• FAQ for employees (Legal Aid at Work)

• Don't Hide Bad News in Times of Crisis (Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business Review)

• How to Reassure Your Team When the News Is Scary Allison Shapira, Harvard Business Review)

Museum Re-Openings

As of May 7, the majority of our member museums in the US Canada, and Mexico are closed to the public (the only open museum being the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Manitoba, Canada). The below closure information was current as of March 18, but since many institutions have extended closures until later dates or are closed until further notice.

For information on cancellings and closings of all museums, visit this crowdsourced Google Doc.

Alabama

• Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham: closed until further notice

Alaska

• Anchorage Museum, Anchorage: closed until further notice

Alberta

• Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton: temporarily closed

Arizona

• ASU Art Museum, Tempe: closed until further notice
• Heard Museum, Phoenix: closed until further notice
• Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix: closed until further notice, programs cancelled through May 31

Arkansas

• Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock: closed until further notice
• Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville: both locations closed through May 15, all programs cancelled through May

British Columbia

• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver: closed until further notice

California

• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco: closed to the public until further notice
• Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley: closed until further notice, programs suspended through June 30
• Cantor Arts Center, Stanford: Closed until further notice
• Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento: temporarily closed, all programs suspended through April 30
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young Museum and Legion of Honor), San Francisco: temporarily closed until further notice
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles: closed beginning Saturday March 14
• The Huntington, San Marino: closed at least through May 15
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles: Getty Center and Getty Villa closed to the public beginning March 14 until further notice
• Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach: closed until further notice
• LACMA, Los Angeles: closed until further notice
• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego: closed until further notice
• Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach: closed until further notice
• Oakland Museum of California, Oakland: closed until further notice
• Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana: closed until further notice
• Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs: all locations closed until further notice, programs postponed through March 31, Faye Sarkowsky Sculpture Garden in Palm Desert emains open and free to the public
• San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego: closed until further notice
• San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose: closed until further notice
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara: closed through at least May 15
• SFMOMA, San Francisco: closed until further notice, all programs suspended

Colorado

• Clyfford Still Museum, Denver: closed until further notice
• Denver Art Museum, Denver: closed through mid-May
• Museum of Contemporary Art Denver: closed through July 1

Connecticut

• New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain: closed through at least May 20
• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford: closed likely through May
• Yale Center for British Art, New Haven: closed until further notice
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven: closed until further notice

District of Columbia

• The George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum: closed, all programs suspended until further notice
• Hillwood Estate, Museum, and Gardens: closed until further notice including gardens
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: all Smithsonian museums closed until further notice beginning March 14

• National Gallery of Art: closed until further notice, all programs suspended through September 7
• National Museum of Asian Art: all Smithsonian museums closed until further notice beginning March 14
• National Museum of Women in the Arts: closed until further notice
• National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian: all Smithsonian museums closed until further notice beginning March 14
• The Phillips Collection: closed until further notice
• Smithsonian American Art Museum: all Smithsonian museums closed until further notice beginning March 14

Florida

• The Bass, Miami Beach: closed until further notice, all programming and events through April 30 have been moved to online format, cancelled or postponed
• Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton: closed until further notice
• Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park: closed until further notice
• The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg; closed until further notice
• Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami: closed until further notice
• Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville: closed until further notice
• Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables: closed until further notice

• Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg: temporarily closed until further notice
• Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach: closed until further notice
• NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale: closed until further notice
• Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami: closed until further notice
• The Ringling, Sarasota: closed until further notice
• Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa: closed until further notice
• Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach: closed through June 1

Georgia

• Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Atlanta: temporarily closed until further notice
• The Columbus Museum, Columbus: temporarily closed through April 24
• Georgia Museum of Art, Athens: closed until further notice
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta: closed until further notice
• Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta: closed until further notice
• Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta: closed, all programs suspended through the remainder of the semester
• Telfair Museums, Savannah: closed until further notice

Idaho

• Boise Art Museum, Boise: closed until further notice

Illinois

• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago: closed until further notice, all museum events, tours, and school programs are canceled through May 29
• The Block Museum of Art, Evanston: closed until further notice
• MCA Chicago, Chicago: closed until further notice
• Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago: closed through at least May 30

Indiana

• Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington: closed until further notice
• Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis: closed until further notice

Iowa

• Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines: closed until May 26

Kansas

• Spencer Museum of Art, KU, Lawrence: closed through May 31
• Wichita Art Museum, Wichita: closed through June 16

Kentucky

• Speed Art Museum, Louisville: closed until further notice

Louisiana

• New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans: Scupture garden re-opening June 1

Maine

• Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick: closed until further notice
• Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville: closed until further notice
• Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland: closed through May 31
• Portland Museum of Art, Portland: closed until further notice

Manitoba

• Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg: re-opened on May 7, click through for a list of security precautions and visitor requirements such as masks.

Maryland

• Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore: closed until further notice
• The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore: closed until further notice

Massachusetts

• Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover:closed until further notice, all events have been cancelled through May 31
• Clark Art Institute, Williamstown: closed until at least May 18
• deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln: temporarily closed until further notice
• Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge: Closed until further notice
• ICA Boston, Boston: closed until further notice
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston: closed until further notice, all programs cancelled through September 14
• MFA Boston, Boston: closed through June 30
• MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge: closed until further notice
• Norman Rockwell Museum, Pittsfield: closed until further notice
• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem: closed until further notice
• Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton: closed until further notice
• Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown: closed until further notice
• Worcester Art Museum, Worcester: closed until further notice

Mexico

• Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino, Mexico City: closed until further notice / cerrado hasta nuevo aviso
• Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City: closed until further notice / cerrado hasta nuevo aviso
• Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City: closed until further notice / cerrado hasta nuevo aviso
• Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City: closed until further notice / cerrado hasta nuevo aviso

Michigan

• Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills: closed until further notice
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit: closed through May 15
• Flint Institute of Arts, Flint: closed until further notice
• Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids: closed until further notice
• Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo: closed until further notice
• University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor: closed until further notice

Minnesota

• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis: temporarily closed until further notice
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: closed until further notice, sculpture garden remains open
• Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, St. Paul: closed until further notice

Mississippi

• Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson: temporarily closed until further notice, gardens remain open

Missouri

• Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, St Louis: closed until further notice
• Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis: closed until further notice
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City: closed until further notice
• Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis: Temporarily closed until further notice
• Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis: closed until further notice

Montana

• Missoula Art Museum, Missoula: closed until further notice

Nebraska

• Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha: closed through May 31
• Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln: closed until further notice

New Hampshire

• Currier Museum of Art, Manchester: closed until further notice
• Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover: closed until further notice

New Jersey

• Montclair Art Museum, Montclair: closed until further notice
• Newark Museum of Art, Newark: temporarily closed through May 27
• Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton: closed until further notice

New York

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo: temporarily closed, all scheduled public programs and events are postponed until further notice
• American Folk Art Museum, New York: closed until further notice
• The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx: closed
• Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn: closed until further notice

• Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York: all Smithsonian museums closed until further notice beginning March 14
• The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning: closed until further notice, programs cancelled through May 17
• Dia Art Foundation, New York: all sites are closed until further notice
• The Drawing Center, New York: closed until further notice
• George Eastman Museum, Rochester: temporarily closed until further notice
• Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York: temporarily closed until further notice
• Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs: closed until further notice
• The Frick Collection, New York: closed, all programs cancelled through April 3
• Hudson River Museum, Yonkers: closed until further notice
• The Jewish Museum, New York: temporarily closed until further notice
• Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester: closed until further notice
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: closed starting March 13 until further notice (all locations)
• Morgan Library and Museum, New York: closed until further notice
• Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica: closed until further notice
• The Museum at FIT, New York: closed until further notice, March and April events cancelled
• Museum of Modern Art, New York: closed until further notice
• Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase: closed until further notice
• New Museum, New York: anticipates remaining closed until the summer
• The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City: Temporarily closed until further notice
• Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill: closed until further notice
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: closed until further notice
• The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York: closed
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: closed

North Carolina

• Ackland Museum of Art, UNC, Chapel Hill: closed indefinitely
• Asheville Art Museum, Asheville: closed until further notice
• The Mint Museum, Charlotte: closed until further notice
• Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham: closed until further notice
• North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh: closed until further noticed. Museum Park remains open for walking, running, and biking, visitors should practice extreme caution and take strict social distancing measures.
• Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem: closed until further notice

North Dakota

• Plains Art Museum, Fargo: closed until further notice

Nova Scotia

• Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax: Closed until further notice

Ohio

• Akron Art Museum, Akron: closed until further notice
• Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin: museum closed until further notice
• The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown: closed until further notice
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati: temporarily closed
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland: closed until further notice
• Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus: temporarily closed
• Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati: temporarily closed
• The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton: temporarily closed until further notice
• mOca Cleveland, Cleveland: closed until further notice
• Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati: closed until further notice
• Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo: closed until
• Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus: closed until further notice

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma: temporarily closed, with a goal of June opening
• Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa: Tentative phase 1 reopening (gardens only) beginning June 6

Ontario

• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: closed until further notice
• Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor: temporarily closed
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa: closed until further notice
• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto: temporarily closed

Oregon

• Portland Art Museum, Portland: closed until further notice

Pennsylvania

• The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh: closed until further notice
• The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia: closed until further notice
• Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford: closed until further notice
• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh: closed until further notice
• The Frick Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh: closed through June 1
• Penn Museum, Philadelphia: temporarily closed
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia: closed until further notice
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philaldelphia: closed through June 30

Puerto Rico

• Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce: closed until further notice / el Museo permanecerá cerrado hasta nuevo aviso
• Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan: closed until further notice / cerrado hasta nuevo aviso

Quebec

• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal: closed until further notice
• Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal: closed unti further notice

Rhode Island

• RISD Museum, Providence: closed until further notice

South Carolina

• Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia: temporarily closed until further notice

Tennessee

• Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis: closed until further notice
• Frist Art Museum, Nashville: closed until further notice, planning for a mid-June re-open
• Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis: closed until further notice

Texas

• Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth: closed until further notice
• Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin: temporarily closed until further notice
• The Contemporary Austin, Austin: closed until further notice
• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas: closed until further notice
• El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso: closed until further notice
• Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth: closed until further notice
• McNay Art Museum, San Antonio: closed until further notice
• Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas: closed until further notice
• The Menil Collection, Houston: closed until further notice
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth: closed until further notice
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: closed until further notice
• Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas: Closed until further notice. all public programs and events for the remainder of March and through the month of April.
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio: closed until further notice

Utah

• Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City: closed until further notice

Vermont

• Shelburne Museum, Shelburne: temporarily closed until further notice

Virginia

• Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg: closed through May 31
• Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk: closed until further notice
• The Fralin Museum of Art, UVA, Charlottesville: closed until further notice
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond: closed until further notice

Washington

• Frye Art Museum, Seattle: closed until further notice
• Henry Art Gallery, Seattle: closed until further notice
• Seattle Art Museum, Seattle: closed until further notice
• Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma: closed until further notice

Wisconsin

• Chazen Museum of Art, Madison: closed until further notice
• Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee: closed until further notice
• Madison Museum of Contemporary Art: closed until further notice
• Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee: closed until further notice