Smithsonian Institution Leadership

If you love the arts, how awesome would it be to work for the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum? As with other professions, it looks like there are many paths to a very desirable job with one of the top employers in the field, with 67% of its leaders having gone to a non-MC25 school. (Note: Click on the word ‘Lists’ in the menu for important notes for this section.)

Director

Columbia

Curators

Sarah Lawrence College

Princeton U

College of the Atlantic

U North Carolina–Chapel Hill

New York U

U Washington

U Texas–Austin

U Virginia

Columbia

Williams College

Art Institute of Chicago

U Wisconsin

Scholars

San Francisco State

Earlham College

Source: si.edu

(Last updated 3/31/2021)