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 Sackler, but they also reflect specific publication, exhibition, and educational goals of the Museums as a whole. Programming is often made possible by specific funds such as the Richard L. Menschel Endowment Fund, M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund, or the Nancy S. Nichols Memorial Lecture Fund. 

Structure of the Museum/Staff

Z. Kish-DeGiulio




Visitors + Outreach

S. Capo Chichi

The museums provide free tours and free gallery talks with museum admission, as well as tours for students. Some free lectures and seminars are given, as well as workshop for which the payment of a material fee is required.

With the exception of workshops, the museum has resumed such activities online despite the cancellation of all in-person events.   

The museum also provides Family-Friendly Resources as well as magazine articles. 

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