page_title: William Griswold (museum director)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: William Griswold (museum director) / Career
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of the Pierpont Morgan Library in Manhattan, New York, USA at night
context_page_description: William M. Griswold is an American museum director and curator. He assumed his current position at the Cleveland Museum of Art in May 2014, succeeding David Franklin as the ninth director of the museum. He previously held various curatorial and directorial positions at institutions across the United States, including the Met, the Morgan Library & Museum in Los Angeles, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
  In his tenure at the Cleveland Museum of Art, he has overseen initiatives to grow and diversify the museum's audience and address barriers present for members of underrepresented groups within its operations. In the two instances that museum staff discovered the questionable provenance of one of its objects, he has personally led negotiations resulting in their return to their respective countries of origin.
caption: The Morgan Library & Museum, where Griswold first worked as a curator and later as its director
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