Bizot group

The Bizot group, sometimes called The International Group of Organizers of Major Exhibitions, and also known as Groupe Bizot (named after Irène Bizot, director of the Réunion des musées nationaux, the origin of this group), is a group, founded in 1992, which periodically brings together the directors of the largest museums in the world, constituting a place for exchanging ideas, recent museum news, and a forum for discussing ideas.^[1]^[2]

Purpose[]

These meetings are intended to facilitate trade between major museums, both in terms of works and exhibitions that ideas.^[3] The group initially included only European institutions, but then expanded to other selected institutions.^[4]

In December 2002, the Bizot group published a declaration, "Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums", in which it argues against requests for the return of objects or installations by the countries from which these objects originated, and defends the interest of "universal museums".^[3]

Members[]

A letter of November 2014, from the consolidation, cites the main members of the group at the time.^[5]

Réunion des musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées
Musée du Louvre
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée d'Orsay
Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon
Metropolitan Museum of Art
British Museum
Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Musée de l'Ermitage
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique^[6]
Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire de Bruxelles
Museo Reina Sofía
Musée du Prado
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Art Institute of Chicago

Previous meetings (selected)[]

Berlin, 2015
Montréal, 2006^[7]
Munich, 2003

References[]

^ Kostas Arvanitis (2016). Routledge (ed.). Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches. ISBN 9781317092865.
^ Christine Sylvester (2015). Routledge (ed.). Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect it. pp. 38–41, 49, 117. ISBN 9781317092865.
^ ^a ^b Emmanuel Koblenz, "Wink. The "Groupe Bizot": a cartellisation of the major museum institutions?", , vol. 3, no 76, 2014, p.143–145.
^ Eric Bietry-Rivierre, " The new art of managing museums ", Le Figaro, January 23, 2014 [1]
^ "Letter from the Bizot Group ?" (PDF). www.hermitagemuseum.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-12-03. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
^ Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. (in French)
^ Stéphane Baillargeon, " Montreal, World heart museums. Forty directors from major institutions around the world meet at the MBAM ", Le Devoir ,October 18, 2006 [2]