Michael Botwinick

Michael Botwinick has been Director of the Hudson River Museum since 2001. He has served as Director of the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Newport Harbor Art Museum in Orange County, CA, The Center for Orange County Regional Studies at the University of California, Irvine and as Assistant Director at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He began his career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art where he was an Associate Curator of Medieval Art and the Cloisters before becoming Assistant Curator-in-Chief of the Museum.

He did his Graduate work at Columbia University. He taught at Columbia and City College. He has organized exhibitions with Museums throughout Europe, Asia and Africa, including the first American exhibitions to go to China. He has served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of State on its Art in Embassies Program, the International Research and Exchange Board on Cultural Exchange, the Egyptian Government on cultural policy, the World Bank on the renovation for the Cairo Museum, Yale University on its Art Gallery, and others. He served on the committee that drafted the first Code of Ethics for the American Association of Museums. He has served as a Board Member for the AAM, AAMD, Museums Collaborative and US-ICOM among others. He was Vice President of the Museum Association of New York State from 2008 to 2013.

Areas of Expertise

Governance

Policy Analysis

Public & Nonprofit Organizations