What are the secrets of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, whose acquisition budget is proportionally inverse to the dynamic enrichment of its collections?
Sèvres Factory (founded in 1756), pair of vases, "Le Feu" and "L’Eau", 1806, hard porcelain, each 37.5 cm high. MMFA, purchase, donation dedicated to the memory of Marie Pineau and her parents, Adrienne D’Amours Pineau and René Pineau
How many French museums can boast such exponential growth as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts? Barely five years after the opening of a fourth extension to house Canadian art, and four years after the opening of the Michel de La Chenelière Atelier for education, the institution inaugurated a new building of 5,000 m² (thanks to the generosity of Michal and Renata Hornstein), designed to redeploy all the foreign school collections. While the benefactors' collection was central to this decision, it was not the only driving force. With Veronese, Guardi, Boucher and many more, there is a long list of recent costly acquisitions. And yet the museum only takes a tiny budget of C$1 million each year (€670,000) from its own funds… Less is more "You can always make splendid acquisitions, even with very little money. You just need to be strategic,"…
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