Clinton, MA

Executive Director

The Museum of Russian Icons (MORI) in the search for an Executive Director. Please click to view the full position description or to nominate/apply.

Located in Clinton, MA, the Museum of Russian Icons was created by the late collector and business leader Gordon Lankton in 2004, opened to the public in 2006, and today hosts a distinctive, world-class, thematically-based art collection of more than 1,000 objects. It is also home to the Center for Icon Studies, the research arm of the Museum, which publishes the peer-reviewed online Journal of Icon Studies. Open to the public four days a week, the Museum organizes its own exhibitions from the permanent collection and also hosts visiting exhibitions from other museums and collections. It has an annual budget of $1.1 million, a 10-member Board, 14 staff and 15 volunteers, about 450 members and annual attendance of about 11,000.

The Board seeks an arts professional to lead all museum exhibitions, programming, curatorial and collections management functions; maximize fundraising and museum & online attendance; and develop relationships with collectors, curators, gallerists, educators, researchers and museum professionals nationally and internationally.

We appreciate you sharing the position description with your network, and also any nominations you might have.

For additional information or to apply, please contact Steve Oppenheim, Dennis Hanthorn or Mark Oppenheim at info[at]moppenheim[dot]com.