Free or Reduced Admission and Special Programs at Art Museums Across North America
NEW YORK, May 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Art museums across the continent will join in celebrating International Museum Day on or around May 18, 2010 by offering free or reduced admission or special programs. These museums—all members of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD)—are located across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and include smaller regional museums as well as leading international institutions. AAMD participation will focus attention on the important roles that art museums serve in their communities, showcase their collections, and increase opportunities for audiences to engage with the many educational programs art museums offer. International Museum Day is organized annually by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
A comprehensive list of participating art museums and their specific programs and admission offers is available in the newsroom of the AAMD website (http://www.aamd.org/newsroom/). Art museums participating in International Museum Day in 2010 include the following institutions:
American Folk Art Museum Amon Carter Museum Arkansas Arts Center Art Gallery of Ontario Art Institute of Chicago Artpace San Antonio Asia Society Museum Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Aspen Art Museum Bass Museum of Art Brigham Young University Museum of Art Butler Institute of American Art Carnegie Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Columbia Museum of Art Columbus Museum Columbus Museum of Art Currier Museum of Art David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art Dayton Art Institute Delaware Art Museum Des Moines Art Center Dixon Gallery and Gardens El Museo del Barrio Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Frick Art and Historical Center Frick Collection Frist Center for the Visual Arts Georgia Museum of Art J. Paul Getty Museum Grand Rapids Art Museum Guggenheim Museum Hammer Museum Harvard Art Museum Harn Museum of Art Henry Art Gallery Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Japan Society Gallery Jewish Museum Kimbell Art Museum Madison Museum of Contemporary Art |
Meadows Museum, SMU Metropolitan Museum of Art Miami Art Museum Michael C. Carlos Museum Minneapolis Institute of Arts Montclair Art Museum Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museo Franz Mayer Museum of Modern Art Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Nasher Sculpture Center National Gallery of Canada National Museum of Wildlife Art New Museum New Orleans Museum of Art Noguchi Museum Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art Phillips Collection Phoenix Art Museum Portland (Oregon) Art Museum Princeton University Art Museum San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Jose Museum of Art Smith College Museum of Art Snite Museum of Art Spencer Museum of Art Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute Studio Museum in Harlem Tacoma Art Museum Taft Museum of Art Telfair Museum Wolfsonian-FIU Vero Beach Museum of Art Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Walker Art Center Westmoreland Museum of American Art Wexner Center for the Arts, O.S.U. Whitney Museum of American Art Wichita Art Museum Yale University Art Gallery |
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For additional information, contact: |
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Molly Kurzius |
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Resnicow Schroeder Associates |
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212-671-5163 |
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SOURCE Association of Art Museum Directors
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