Our mission
FRench American Museum Exchange (FRAME) is a consortium of 32 major museums in France and North America that promotes cultural exchange in the context of museum collaborations. FRAME fosters partnerships among its member museums to develop innovative exhibitions, educational and public programs, and professional exchanges among museum staff, and maintains a website to reach global audiences.
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
Anne-Solène Rolland
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.
Our Member Museums
Latest News
An American Season in France
The Musée d’Arts de Nantes, the Musée Fabre de Montpellier, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, and the Centre de la Vieille Charité in Marseille
Virtual symposium – “Expanding and Redirecting Historical Research Related to Franco-American Artistic Relationships between 1918 and 1964”
American Season in France FRAME hosted a virtual symposium about Expanding and Redirecting Historical Research Related to Franco-American Artistic Relationships between 1918 and 1964 on
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Opens the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
On November 21, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) opened the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, designed by Steven Holl Architects. The new 237,000-square-foot
Le Monde à portée de sens: A cabinet of curiosities at Christophe-Paul de Robien’s in the 18th century
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rennes has published Le Monde à portée de sens: A cabinet of curiosities at Christophe-Paul de Robien’s in the 18th
FRAME Virtual Fall Conference
FRAME will host a two-day Virtual Fall Conference on Wednesday, September 30 and Thursday, October 1. The subject will be “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
Jean-François Chougnet to speak at FRAME Virtual Fall Conference
Jean-François Chougnet, President of the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MUCEM) in Marseille, France, will be one of two keynote speakers at the FRAME
Contact us
You may contact FRAME in a number of ways.
- North America: 1.860.581.8609
- France: +33 (0)1 40 15 35 67
- info@framemuseums.org
- PO Box 5 Essex, CT 06426