Museum Assoc – Save the Art

AAMD Statement on Sanction of Berkshire Museum and La Salle University Art Museum

May 25, 2018
Museum Assoc

The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) announced today that its Board of Trustees has voted to impose sanctions on the Berkshire Museum and the La Salle University Art Museum.

Open Letter to the Berkshire Museum’s Board of Trustees

October 27, 2017
Arts Professional, Industry Professional, Museum Assoc

Open Letter to the Berkshire Museum’s Board of Trustees, October 27, 2017 We strongly oppose the museum’s decision to sell artwork that iconic artists such as Norman Rockwell personally donated on behalf of the community he loved. Read...

ABOUT

SAVE THE ART (STA)
A grassroots citizens group established in 2017 with the intent of stopping the sale of the Berkshire Museum’s treasured art collection in order to find an alternate solution to its continued financial shortfall.

MISSION

The mission of Save the Art is to advocate for and protect the Public Trust — the art and objects belonging to all of us that document humankind’s creative and social history through time.

PRESS

We thank the Berkshire Eagle for their extensive investigative coverage, the journalists, op-ed writers and our community for their hundreds of letters of concern. In particular, STA applauds Larry Parnass, Investigations Editor, Berkshire Eagle, for his excellent coverage of the Berkshire Museum and achievement of the 2018 Outstanding Journalism award from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.

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