Guess What… Women Control the Management of Major Museums in the World
From the Louvre to the Vatican Museums and the National Gallery of Art, female directors are taking over from men.
When Laurence des Cars was appointed president-director of the Louvre in 2021, it was a historic marker., because the world’s most visited museum had a woman in charge for the first time since it was founded in 1793.
Ms. des Cars was the highest-profile example in a wave of women taking the top jobs at some of the world’s biggest museums.
The last few years have seen women taking over from men to lead Tate, comprising four British museums; the Vatican Museums; the National Gallery of Art in Washington; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Saint Louis Art Museum, and many more. And it only seems to be accelerating, according to the “New York Times” newspaper website.
And here are some of the most prominent examples of women who lead international museums:
– Anne Pasternak, who was appointed director of the Brooklyn Museum in 2015.
– Sasha Suda, who took over from Timothy Rub as director of the Philadelphia Museum last year.
– Ellen V. Futter, who in March stepped down after nearly 30 years as president of the American Museum of Natural History.
– Maria Balshaw, who became director of Tate in 2017 (she oversees Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London; Tate Liverpool; and Tate St. Ives in Cornwall).
– Thelma Golden of the Studio Museum in Harlem.
– Brooke A. Minto, was recently appointed to run the Columbus Museum of Art.
– the Pakistan-born Asma Naeem became the director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
– Min Jung Kim, who was born and raised in South Korea, took over the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2021.
– Raphaela Platow, the director of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky.
– Joanne Heyler, the founding director and president of the Broad Museum in Los Angeles.
