FRAME
(The French Regional American Museum Exchange)
Created in 1999 to foster exchange among 18 regional museums in France and the United States, FRAME (The French Regional American Museum Exchange) has become a beacon of bilateral cultural diplomacy. FRAME has mounted several major exhibitions and created the conditions for hundreds of similar projects by bringing museum professionals in 18 cities and towns throughout France and the United States into collaboration. Not restricting its programs to museum directors and curators, who tend to be the best-traveled museum employees, FRAME has brought registrars, educators and computer wizards from both countries together to share ideas and mount joint projects.
Through its exhibition programs, FRAME has brought American art to France and Italian Renaissance drawings to both countries. The Triumph of French Painting: 17th-Century Masterpieces from the Museums of FRAME made its international premiere in Portland in the fall of 2003. Organized by the Portland Art Museum, the exhibition was the first exhibition project to involve all 18 of the FRAME museums.
We are currently working with our FRAME partners to present French Painting in the Age of Madame De Pompadour: La Volupté du Gout, opening in February 2009.
Museums of FRAME
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dallas Museum of Art
- The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Musée des Augustins de Toulouse
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon
- Musées de Bordeaux
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
- Musée Fabre de Montpellier
- Musée de Grenoble
- Musées de Strasbourg
- Portland Art Museum
- The Saint Louis Art Museum
- Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown)
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
- Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven)
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