Awards and Recognition

Chair’s Leadership Award

The AAM Chair’s Leadership Award is reserved for rare occasions to honor outstanding leadership and extraordinary accomplishments in the museum field. It was first presented in 2015. Recipients are not nominated but instead are chosen by the AAM Board Chair.

Past Recipients

2024

Carlos Tortolero and National Museum of Mexican Art

2019

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico

2017

National Museum of African American History and Culture

2015

Graham Beal, Director, President and CEO, and the Detroit Institute of Arts Board of Directors

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