Max Hollein Consolidates Roles as Met Museum’s Chief

Max Hollein, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, will add the title of chief government, the museum’s board introduced on Wednesday, giving him full management of one of many world’s largest museums.

Hollein will tackle that new function upon the departure of Daniel H. Weiss, the Met’s president and chief government, who final month introduced that he would step down in June 2023. (Weiss has been president of the Met since 2015 and president and chief government since 2017.)

“Max has performed an awesome job throughout his tenure” as director, Candace Ok. Beinecke, one of many museum’s two board chairs, stated in a phone interview. “He has impressed huge confidence as a future chief.”

The transfer returns the museum to its single chief administration construction, one from which it has departed through the years. The Met’s present two-pronged management construction, which is uncommon for artwork museums, was put in place in 2017, after Thomas P. Campbell resigned below strain as director and chief government.

Having led different establishments earlier than — most not too long ago the Tremendous Arts Museums of San Francisco — Hollein stated he felt ready to increase his purview. “It’s an awesome honor, but in addition one thing that comes with an awesome accountability,” Hollein stated.

Requested how his management would possibly differ from that of Weiss, Hollein stated that whereas they’ve “totally different personalities,” he noticed this “as a step of continuation.”

As for Weiss, the previous president of Haverford Faculty and an artwork historian, he has made clear that, at 65 and after steering the museum by way of a interval of instability, he was prepared for a brand new chapter.

“I might slightly exit on prime,” he stated. “Higher to exit when issues are going effectively from a place of energy.”