Contemporary art worlds across the globe have witnessed a private museum boom in the first two decades of the 21st century. Unlike traditional public museums, these museums are founded, governed, and financed by private individuals. Indeed, their main purpose is usually to make the private art collections of their founders accessible to the public on a permanent basis, which happens in a designated exhibition space of building. With a focus on modern and contemporary art, in this study we currently identify 446 such institutions across the globe. They were founded by 406 art collectors – in 30 cases, a single collector or collector couple founded more than one museum.

Onderwerpen: weldoeners 2000-2020 museumwereld

Auteur: prof. dr. Olav Velthuis dr. Kristina Kolbe Johannes Aengenheyster MA Andrea Friedmann Rozenbaum MSc Márton Gera MSc Mingxue Zhang MSc