List of Presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

There have been sixteen presidents of the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

• 16. Daniel Weiss, 2015-Present ^[1]
• 15. Emily Kernan Rafferty, 2005-2015 ^[2][3]
• 14. David E. McKinney, 1999-2005^[4]
• 13. William H. Luers, 1986-1999^[5]
• 12. William B. Macomber, Jr., 1978-1986^[6][7]
• 11. C. Douglas Dillon, 1970-1977 ^[8]
• 10. Arthur Amory Houghton, Jr., 1964-1970 ^[9]
• 9. Roland L. Redmond, 1947-1964^[10]
• 8. William Church Osborn, 1941-1947^[11]
• 7. George Blumenthal, 1933-1941^[12]
• 6. William Sloane Coffin, 1931-1933^[12]
• 5. Robert Weeks de Forest, 1913-1931^[13]
• 4. John Pierpont Morgan, 1904-1913^[12]
• 3. Frederick W. Rhinelander, 1902-1904^[14]
• 2. Henry Gurdon Marquand, 1889-1902^[15]
• 1. John Taylor Johnston, 1870-1889^[16]

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