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List of female art museum directors

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This is a list of notable female museum directors.

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List of female art museum directors by name

A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q, R, S – T, U, V – W, X, Y, Z

1900–1919

  • Cornelia B. Sage (1876 or 1880–1936) (Albright-Knox Gallery)
  • Lulu F. Miller (1916-1930) (Muskegon Museum of Art, formerly known as the Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, MI)
  • 1920s

  • Catharine Elizabeth Bean Cox (Honolulu Museum of Art)
  • Katherine Innes (Montclair Art Museum)
  • Florence Nightingale Levy (1870–1947) (Baltimore Museum of Art)
  • Gertrude Herdle Moore (1896–1993) (Memorial Art Gallery)
  • Beatrice Winser (Newark Museum)
  • 1930s

  • Adelyn (Dohme) Breeskin (1896–1986) (Baltimore Museum of Art)
  • Juliana R. Force (1876–1948) (Whitney Museum of American Art)
  • Dr. Grace McCann Morley (1900–1985) (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
  • Hilla von Rebay (1890–1967) (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
  • 1940s

  • Katherine Coffey (Newark Museum)
  • Alice Kendall (Newark Museum)
  • Agnes Mongan (1905–1996) (Harvard Art Museums)
  • Isabel Spaulding Roberts (Brooklyn Museum)
  • Esther I. Seaver (Dayton Art Institute)
  • Ala Story (1907–1972) (Santa Barbara Museum of Art)
  • 1950s

  • Katherine Hanna (Taft Museum of Art)
  • 1960s

  • Jean Sutherland Boggs (1922-2014) (National Gallery of Canada
  • Dorothy Mayhall (1925–1995) (Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Storm King)
  • 1970s

  • Jean Sutherland Boggs (1922-2014) (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  • Muriel B. Christison (Krannert Art Museum)
  • Suzanne Delehanty (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia) (Contemporary Museum Houston) (Center for the Fine Arts, Miami)
  • Cathleen Gallander (Art Museum of South Texas)
  • Kathryn E. Gamble (1933–2011) (Montclair Art Museum)
  • Alana Heiss (born 1943) (P.S.1 now MoMA PS1)
  • Shirley Reiff Howarth (born 1944) (Muskegon Museum of Art, formerly known as the Hackley Art Museum 1975-1979; Tampa Art Museum, 1979-1981)
  • Dorothy Mayhall (1925–1995) (Storm King Art Center)
  • Jan Keene Muhlert (born 1942)(University of Iowa Museum of Art)
  • Hsio-Yen Shih (1933–2001) (National Gallery of Canada)
  • 1980s

  • Linda Bantel (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts)
  • Jacquelynn Bass (Hood Museum of Art) (University Art Museum, Berkeley)
  • Jane Bledsoe (Georgia Museum of Art)
  • Elizabeth Broun (National Museum of American Art)
  • Mary Schmidt Campbell (born 1948) (Studio Museum in Harlem)
  • Linda Cathcart (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston)
  • Priscilla Colt (University of Kentucky Art Museum)
  • Kinshasha Homan Conwill (Studio Museum in Harlem)
  • Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (Vancouver Art Gallery) (Frye Art Museum)
  • Barbara Knowles Debs (New-York Historical Society)
  • Anne d'Harnoncourt (1943–2008) (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
  • Mary Gardner Gates (Yale University Art Gallery) (Seattle Art Museum)
  • Adelheid M. Gealt (Indiana University Art Museum)
  • Barbara Gibbs (Crocker Art Museum) (Cincinnati Art Museum)
  • Constance W. Glenn (Art Museum, California State University)
  • Anne Hawley (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
  • Marilyn Hoffman (Currier Museum of Art)
  • Holly Hotchner (New-York Historical Society)
  • Janet Kardon (Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia) (American Craft Museum)
  • Emily Kass (Fort Wayne Museum of Art) (Tampa Museum of Art) (University of New Mexico Art Museum) (Fort Wayne Museum of Art)
  • Lyndel King (Weisman Art Museum)
  • Mary H. Kujawski (University of Iowa, Museum of Art)
  • Marcia Manhart (Philbrook Museum of Art)
  • Ursula E. McCracken (Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.))
  • Ruth Meyer (Taft Museum of Art)
  • Marena Grant Morrisey (Orlando Museum of Art)
  • Andrea S. Norris (Spencer Museum of Art)
  • Barbara S. Nosanow (Portland Museum of Art)
  • Dr. Christina Orr-Cahall (Oakland Museum of Art) (Norton Museum of Art) (Corcoran Gallery of Art
  • Merribell Parsons (Columbus Museum of Art)
  • Carol A. Phillips (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
  • Dianne Pilgrim (Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum)
  • Joan Rosenbaum (Jewish Museum (Manhattan))
  • Linda Shearer (Williams College Museum of Art, CAC)
  • Innis Shoemaker (Ackland Art Museum)
  • Rochelle Slovin (Museum of the Moving Image)
  • Cheryll Sotheran (1986-1989 director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery; 1989-1992, director of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery,1992-2002 director of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa)
  • Nancy Spector, Deputy Director (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
  • Lisa M. Taylor (Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum)
  • Shirley Thomson (1930-2010) (National Gallery of Canada)
  • Edith Tonelli (Wight Art Gallery)
  • Marcia Tucker (1940–2006) (New Museum of Contemporary Art)
  • Julia Brown Turrell (Des Moines Art Center)
  • Barbara A. Tyler (McMichael Canadian Art Collection)
  • Katherine J. Watson (Bowdoin College Museum of Art)
  • Sylvia H. Williams (National Museum of African Art)
  • 1990s

  • Kathy Halbreich (Walker Art Center)
  • Jenny Harper (1990-1992 director of New Zealand's National Art Gallery (now the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa); 2006-present director of the Christchurch Art Gallery)
  • Holly Hotchner (Museum of Art and Design)
  • Jan Keene Muhlert (born 1942) (Amon Carter Museum) (Palmer Museum of Art)
  • Ann Philbin (Hammer Museum)
  • Kimerly Rorschach (Smart Museum of Art)
  • Mary Sue Sweeney (Newark Museum)
  • Elsie McCabe Thompson (Museum for African Art)
  • Roslyn Walker (National Museum of African Art)
  • 2000 to present

  • Hope Alswang, Norton Museum of Art
  • Rael Artel, Tartu Art Museum
  • Maria Balshaw, director of the Whitworth, University of Manchester and Manchester City Galleries (which includes Manchester Art Gallery and Gallery of Costume)
  • Ivy Barsky, Director and Chief Executive Officer (National Museum of American Jewish History)
  • Kathleen Bartels (Vancouver Art Gallery)
  • Caroline Baumann (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
  • Annette Blaugrund (National Academy Museum and School)
  • Holly Block (Bronx Museum of the Arts)
  • Nathalie Bondil, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
  • Patricia Bovey (Winnipeg Art Gallery)
  • Leslie Greene Bowman (Winterthur Museum)
  • Betsey Bradley, Mississippi Museum of Art
  • Karen Brosius, Columbia Museum of Art
  • Elizabeth Broun, Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Andrea Barnwell Brownlee, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
  • Laurene Buckley (Queens Museum)
  • Janet Carding, (Royal Ontario Museum 2010-2015; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 2015-present)
  • Melissa Chiu (born 1972) (Asia Society)
  • Johnnetta Cole, National Museum of African Art
  • Lisa Corrin, Williams College Museum of Art, Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
  • Sharon Corwin, Colby College Museum of Art
  • Suzanne Cotter, Serralves
  • Silvia Karma Cubina, Bass Museum of Art
  • Rhana Devenport (director of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery 2006-2013; director of the Auckland Art Gallery 2013-present)
  • Suzanne Delehanty, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Center
  • Graciela de la Torre (Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte)
  • Donna de Salvo, Deputy Director (Whitney Museum of American Art)
  • Jill Deupi, Lowe Art Museum
  • Gretchen Dietrich, Utah Museum of Fine Arts
  • Jenny Dixon (Noguchi Museum)
  • Janice Driesbach (Sheldon Museum of Art) (Dayton Art Institute)
  • Tina Dunkley, Clark Atlanta University Galleries
  • Susan Edwards, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
  • Kristin Evenden, Glenbow Museum
  • Lori Fogarty, Oakland Museum of California
  • Courtney Gardner, Peninsula Fine Arts Center (PFAC)
  • Adelheid M. Gealt, Indiana University Art Museum
  • Thelma Golden (born 1966) (Studio Museum in Harlem)
  • Claudia Gould (born 1956) (Institute of Contemporary Art) (Jewish Museum)
  • Judy Greenberg, founding director of Kreeger Museum
  • Deborah Gribbon (J. Paul Getty Museum)
  • Madeleine Grynsztejn, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  • Lynn Gumpert, Grey Art Gallery
  • Saralyn Reece Hardy, Spencer Museum of Art
  • Kathleen Harleman (Krannert Art Museum)
  • Rebecca Alban Hoffberger (American Visionary Art Museum)
  • Holly Hotchner, Museum of Arts and Design
  • Mercedes Itube (Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes)
  • Kathleen Jameson, Mint Museum
  • Lial Jones (Crocker Art Museum)
  • Emily Kass (Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina)
  • Dr. Dorothy Kosinski (The Phillips Collection)
  • Susan Krane, San Jose Museum of Art
  • Georgianna Lagoria (The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu)
  • Marilyn Laufer, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art
  • Cathy Leff (Wolfsonian)
  • Diane Lesko (Telfair Museum of Art)
  • Peggy Loar, Corcoran Gallery of Art
  • Susan Longhenry (Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM)
  • Elsie Crum McCabe (New Africa Center Museum for African Art)
  • Nannette Maciejunes (Columbus Museum of Art)
  • Kate Markert, Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens
  • Jill Medvedow (Institute of Contemporary Art)
  • Amy Meyers (Yale Center for British Art)
  • Louise Mirrer (New-York Historical Society)
  • Marena Grant Morrisey, Orlando Museum of Art
  • Laurie Norton Moffat (Norman Rockwell Museum)
  • Alexandra Munroe (Japan Society)
  • Rebecca Nagy, Samuel Harn Museum
  • Jessica F. Nicoll, Smith College Museum of Art
  • Judith H. O’Toole, Westmoreland Museum of American Art
  • Anne Pasternak (Brooklyn Museum)
  • Sharon Patton (born 1944) (Allen Memorial Art Museum)
  • Lisa Phillips (New Museum of Contemporary Art)
  • Raphaela Platow, Contemporary Arts Center
  • Ellen Plummer (Arkansas Art Center)
  • Jordana Pomeroy [Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum]
  • Anne Poulet (The Frick Collection)
  • Renee Price (Neue Galerie New York)
  • Lourdes I. Ramos, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
  • Danielle Rice, Delaware Art Museum
  • Andrea Rich (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
  • Kimerly Rorschach (Seattle Art Museum) (Nasher Art Museum)
  • Amy Sadao, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
  • Kim Sajet, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
  • Estela Sandrini, Oscar Niemeyer Museum
  • Katrina Sedgwick (Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2015-present)
  • Kate Sellers (Wadsworth Atheneum)
  • Bonnie Speed (Michael C. Carlos Museum)
  • Stephanie Stebich, Tacoma Art Museum
  • Susan Fisher Sterling, National Museum of Women in the Arts
  • Lowery Stokes Sims (Studio Museum in Harlem)
  • Terrie Sultan, Parrish Art Museum
  • Lora Urbanelli, Montclair Art Museum
  • Roxana Velasquez (Museo National de Arte) (San Diego Museum of Art)
  • Olga Viso (Hirshorn Museum) (Walker Art Center)
  • Simone Wicha, The Blanton Museum of Art
  • Karol Wight, Corning Museum of Glass
  • Stephanie Wiles (Allen Memorial Art Museum) (Herbert F. Johnson Museum)
  • Sylvia Wolf, Henry Art Gallery
  • Lynn Zelevansky, Carnegie Museum of Art
  • Heidi Zuckerman Jacobsen, Aspen Art Museum
  • References

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