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VISION
To create a more just museum sector by 2030.
MISSION
MMF is an independent, limited-life organization devoted to envisioning and creating a more just museum sector by 2030. Together with a diverse network of museums, cultural workers, and philanthropists across the US, MMF drives urgent conversations about the most effective ways to make and measure real change inside museum workplaces. Through data, discourse, and empowerment, MMF is committed to the evolution of museums toward equity by improving the working conditions and lives of cultural workers.
WHAT'S NEW AT MMF
Sign up to participate in the 2026 Data Study
The 2026–27 Data Study launches this fall! Learn more and sign up to participate as a Partner Museum or individual below.
Now live: new survey for former US art museum workers
Did you used to work a US art museum but don’t anymore? We want to hear from you! We consider a “former art museum worker” to include anyone who resigned from a position, retired, quit, got laid off, completed a contract, or was involuntarily terminated and no longer works at a US art museum (however you define “art” and “museum”).
‘DREAM’ Pilot launches in partnership with six major US art museums
Stewarded by MMF, DREAM (Data & Research on Equity in Art Museums) is collaboration between researchers at MMF, Black Trustee Alliance, Burns Halperin Report, and SMU DataArts to streamline data collection efforts for the art museum sector. Our six partners are: Dia Art Foundation, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Perez Art Museum Miami, Seattle Art Museum, Toledo Museum of Art, and Walker Art Center.
New research on unions in public and university art museums
A new spotlight in the Art Museum Unions Index highlights unionization efforts within public and university art museums. Together with the data on private nonprofit art museum unions, the Index now presents the fullest picture to date of the art museum union movement.
MMF's 2025 Report on Workplace Equity and Organizational Culture in US Art Museums is out now!
This study gathers quantitative data on workplace equity and organizational culture in US art museums and builds upon our inaugural 2022-23 Data Study & Report. The goal of this study is to create a field-wide view of trends and patterns in art museum workplaces, to measure changes in the data over time, and to provide recommendations based on the data to support leaders in making data-informed decisions.
2024–25 Partner Museums
Akron Art Museum
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Aspen Art Museum
ASU Art Museum
Bakersfield Museum of Art
The Bass Museum of Art
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Carnegie Museum of Art
Chazen Museum of Art
Clyfford Still Museum
Columbus Museum of Art
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
The Contemporary Austin
Crocker Art Museum
Dennos Museum Center
Dia Art Foundation
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Flint Institute of Arts
Frye Art Museum
George Eastman Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Greenville Museum of Art
The Gund at Kenyon College
Grounds for Sculpture
Harn Museum of Art
Henry Art Gallery
Honolulu Museum of Art
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
ICA Los Angeles
ICA Philadelphia
ICA San Diego
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
James Museum of Western and Wildlife Art
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
The Kitchen
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Lan Su Chinese Garden
MASS MoCA
MCA Chicago
Mead Art Museum
Memphis Brooks Museum
Metal Museum
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Mississippi Museum of Art
Missoula Art Museum
MIT List Visual Arts Center
MOCA Cleveland
Moody Center for the Arts
Morgan Library & Museum
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
Museum of Latin American Art
Nasher Sculpture Center
Newark Museum of Art
Oakland Museum of California
Oceanside Museum of Art
Parrish Art Museum
Peabody Essex Museum
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Philbrook Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum
Portland Museum of Art
The Print Center
Providence College Galleries
Pulitzer Arts Foundation
Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum
Queens Museum
RISD Museum
Saint Louis Art Museum
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Seattle Art Museum
Sheldon Museum of Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Speed Art Museum
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Stanley Museum of Art
Studio Museum in Harlem
Taft Museum of Art
Toledo Museum of Art
Tufts University Art Galleries
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Walker Art Center
Weisman Art Museum
Wexner Center for the Arts
Williams College Museum of Art
Yale University Art Gallery