Our Mission

French Regional American Museum Exchange (FRAME) is a consortium of 26 major museums in France and North America that promotes cultural exchange in the context of museum collaborations. FRAME fosters partnerships among its member museums to develop innovative exhibitions, educational and public programs, and professional exchanges among museum staff, and maintains a bi-lingual website to reach global audiences.  

Major FRAME initiatives include critically-acclaimed traveling exhibitions including THE MOURNERS, touring in Europe following a 7-city U.S. tour that launched at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in partnership with FRAME in 2010. Following the opening at the Met, these rare Burgundian masterpieces from Dijon traveled to 6 FRAME museums in St. Louis, Dallas, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Richmond. Over 500,000 visitors experienced this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition, which was accompanied by a richly illustrated scholarly catalogue. CARAVAGGIO AND HIS LEGACY has concluded at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and opens next at the Wadsworth Atheneum on March 6, 2013. To date, nearly 400,000 visitors have seen the exhibition in Toulouse and Montpellier, France, and in Los Angeles. This remarkable FRAME collaboration has realized a critical and popular success for the exhibition and the accompanying scholarly catalogues in French and English, with the majority of loans from FRAME member museums.