FRAME - Welcome to FRAME Museums

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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COVID-19

FRAME's response to the health crisis and the subsequent closure of all 32 museums in the network

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Notre Mission

FRench American Museum Exchange (FRAME) est un consortium de trente-deux musées en France et en Amérique du Nord qui encourage les échanges culturels dans le cadre de coopérations entre musées. FRAME favorise les partenariats entre ses membres afin de développer des expositions et des programmes de médiation innovants, des échanges professionnels entre les équipes de ses musées. A travers son site internet, FRAME est en contact avec une grande variété de publics à l'échelle internationale.

Vidéo des 20 ans de FRAME

FRAME continue d'incarner une véritable alliance culturelle, malgré les complexités politiques occasionnelles entre nos pays, favorisant le développement de relations professionnelles et de travail chaleureuses et mutuellement bénéfiques entre les musées membres de FRAME en France et en Amérique du Nord.

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.