2014_06_01_MUN_GettyLeadership

During the last few months Miguel López-Remiro has participated in the Getty Leadership Institute's Executive Program in Museum Management at Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles. This is the first participation of a Spanish Director in this program, which already has 35 promotions and has been attended by more than 1,100 museum management professionals from more than 30 countries since 1979.

The GLI is a program promoted by the Getty Foundation and the GLI Alumni, leading institutions in the fields of arts, culture and history.

The 2014 GLI Museum Management Executive Program 2014 features a comprehensive and intensive curriculum aimed at deepening participants' leadership skills in order to manage change and forge success in the global museum field. The 2014 program has offered a novel learning environment: it has blended a week of asynchronous online classes during the month of April and in June, students have held two weeks of face-to-face class and residency program at campus at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.

The 2014 participants bring together profiles from visual arts institutions and non-institutions around the world. The group includes executives from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Freer Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution and the Phillips Collection. Along with the University of Navarra Museum, other university museums were represented by art museum directors from the University of Utah, University of Texas, University of Washington, California State University, Long Beach University and Reed College. Participants from international institutions included directors from the Royal Academy of Art in London, the Helsinki Art Museum in Finland, the Palace Museum and the Shaanxi History Museum in China.

The professors who have taught the GLI course come from the most prestigious educational institutions including names from the University of Southern California, the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College, and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. In addition, guest lecturers include executives and directors from the Southern California Art Museums. The program, educational , promotes learning through theory and internship , and seeks to promote leadership in museums at both the individual and institutional levels, as well as at different levels of society.