Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey, United States, 2015, 2018

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These data were gathered on behalf of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). The goal of the survey was to study the representational diversity within art museums through quantitative means. The survey instrument, developed by Ithaka S+R, was administered to directors of AAMD and AAM member art museums. The first cycle of data were collected in 2015 (February-March 2015), and the second cycle in 2018 (July-September 2018). The collected data was sent to researchers at Ithaka S+R, who appended, cleaned and analyzed the data, and presented findings in a public research report. The 2018 instrument was slightly expanded to capture additional specifics of the composition of art museum employees. 332 art museums responded to the survey in 2018 and 136 of them also participated in the survey in 2015. The survey collected demographic and employment data for over 30,000 museum employees. About 27,000 of these are employed at AAMD museums, and approximately 3,000 are from (non-AAMD) AAM member museums.