List of presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

There have been sixteen presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Until 1978, the position was essentially a supervisory one belonging to the head of the museum's board of trustees. In 1978, following the departure of Thomas Hoving the board decided the museum had become too complex for one person to administer, and splitting the administration between the Director, who would retain curatorial oversight, and a President, who would handle administration and finance.^[1]

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No.	Image	Name	Term
1		John Taylor Johnston[2]	1870–1889
2		Henry Gurdon Marquand[3]	1889–1902
3		Frederic W. Rhinelander[4]	1902–1904
4		John Pierpont Morgan[5]	1904–1913
5		Robert Weeks de Forest[6]	1913–1931
6		William Sloane Coffin, Sr.[5]	1931–1933
7		George Blumenthal[5]	1933–1941
8		William Church Osborn[7][8]	1941–1947
9		Roland L. Redmond[9]	1947–1964
10		Arthur A. Houghton Jr.[10]	1964–1970
11		C. Douglas Dillon[11]	1970–1977
12		William B. Macomber Jr.[12][13]	1978–1986
13		William H. Luers[1]	1986–1999
14		David E. McKinney[14]	1999–2005
15		Emily Kernan Rafferty[15][16]	2005–2015
16		Daniel Weiss[17]	2015–2023

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