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We support programs at member museums in North America and France with the goal of serving FRAME’s mission to promote cultural exchange in the context of museum collaborations.

Pierre Bonnard, Nursemaids'Promenade, Frieze of Carriages, 1895, etc.

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Education

We provide financial support to initiatives that nurture and foster increased partnerships

Visitors in the 19th century galleries at the Musée d’arts de Nantes / Visiteurs dans les salles du XIXe siècle au Musée d’arts de Nantes

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World-Class Exhibitions

We fund collaborations between 32 museums in North America and France

Caravagio (Michelangelo Merisi), Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, c. 1595-1596, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford

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Online Programs

Our Members are creating innovative new digital programs.

Virtual tour (video) of the decorations painted by Hippolyte Flandrin, Lyon Museum of Fine Arts

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Publications

We fund the publication of books and scholarly publications to accompany exhibitions which extend international understanding of the material.

Exhibition Catalogue of Senufo Unbound: Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa, 2015

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Our mission

FRAME is a consortium of major art museums and affiliated cultural and educational institutions in France and North America. It promotes dialogue and cultural exchange between museum professionals and other scholars in France, Canada, and the United States. FRAME pursues its mission by sponsoring conferences and fostering and supporting partnerships in scholarly research, exhibitions, educational programs, and other collaborations organized by its member and affiliated organizations. With its core focus on exchange, FRAME is committed to stimulating collaboration and collegiality between its membership, and its renewed goal of expansion and welcoming new and affiliate members will further the organization’s reach and development of networks and public programs, all while maintaining a human scale.

FRAME'S 20th Anniversary Video

FRAME continues to embody a true cultural alliance, despite the occasional political complexities between our countries, fostering the development of warm and mutually beneficial professional and working relations between FRAME member museums in France and in North America.

William Beekman
Co-President North America, FRAME

CHRISTELLE CREFF
Coprésidente de FRAME, France

About Us

The FRench American Museum Exchange (FRAME) promotes cultural exchange in the context of museum collaborations between North American and French institutions. It is a vibrant bilateral organization founded in 1999 by Elizabeth Rohatyn and Françoise Cachin, and remains the only organization of its kind. The FRAME network began with 18 museums and has nearly doubled in size in the past two decades. Plans are actively underway to further expand this network, and broaden and deepen its impact.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies, ca. 1914-1917, oil on canvas, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Mildred Anne Williams Collection, 1973.3. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.