Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today the 14 participants in the inaugural session of the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium, to be held at the Museum April 7-18, 2014. The Metropolitan Museum created and will host the colloquium to broaden international dialogue about museum management and collections care among directors from collecting institutions.
"Since its inception, the Met has been a museum that has embraced an international perspective and sought to open its visitors' eyes to the world," said Mr. Campbell. "And like any great museum, the Met is a place where people come together to understand different points of view. It is with this in mind that we welcome this distinguished group of museum leaders from 14 countries on five continents for the launch of our global museum leadership program. Ideally, this exchange of ideas and expertise will generate collaborative thinking that will prove beneficial not only to the participating institutions but to museums on a much broader scale."Many of the participants in this year's Global Museum Leaders Colloquium are the directors of the largest or second-largest museums in their respective countries, and in some cases, they oversee national networks of museums. They are directors of national, state, municipal, university, and private museums, with collections ranging from encyclopedic to regionally specific, and from archaeological to modern and contemporary. Ten of the institutions they represent are either undergoing major renovation and expansion projects now or have completed comprehensive renovations within the past four years.Videos