Museum Funds
Funding: The Harvard Art Museums are generally supported through various types of gifts, Friends Circle, Fellows, and Corporate Friends. While much of the internal budget and funding resources remain private, there is extensive information available through press releases that indicate major donors and funding circles from with the Museums derive support. The Museum is also supported by the Mass Arts Council quite broadly. The press releases indicate that there are many extant funding sources within the Harvard University system as well as within the Harvard Art Museums budgets for exhibitions and programming. Exhibitions have been funded by the Provostial Fund in the Arts and Humanities as well as other endowed funds of which Library and Museums received about 4 percent of total endowment spends. The many different sources of funding within the Museums mark the original institutions as some of the funding is still designated to the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger or the Sackl...