Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 8-15, 1999

Volume 28, Number 12

Museum joins U.S.-French consortium

The Yale University Art Gallery is among nine American museums that have joined with nine French museums to promote the exchange of information, technology and resources.

The new partnership was launched at the first Conference of Regional Museums held in October in Lyon, France. The long-range objective of the consortium is to generate joint projects and exchange exhibitions in ways that will raise the profiles of the mid-sized museums and attract tourists who now head for such major cities as New York or Paris.

Joanna Weber, acting curator of European and Contemporary art, represented the Yale Art Gallery at the conference, along with Lionel Goldfrank III '65, a member of the museum's governing board.

"It was particularly useful to have Mr. Goldfrank at the conference," said Weber. "The French museums are all owned and financed by city governments, and their representatives were surprised and intrigued that a volunteer board member should be so committed and involved.

"The American museums are, of course, mainly autonomous," added Weber, "and dependent on fundraising by the board, so [the conference participants] were delighted that at least one institution had the foresight to send a board member."

Yale's art museums have a particularly good reputation among French museum professionals because of the University's Henri Focillon Fellowship in the history of art, said Weber. "At least five of the curators at the conference had been Focillon Fellows, and had great affection and respect for our collections."

The other American art institutions represented at the conference were the Cleveland Art Museum, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Portland (Oregon) Art Museum, the Clark Art Institute, the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Minneapolis Art Institute. The French museums in Grenoble, Bordeaux, Lille, Rouen, Rennes, Toulouse, Montpellier and Strasbourg, as well as the host city of Lyon, also took part in the conference.

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