Max Hollein

Max Hollein
Hollein at the opening of the Monet exhibition in the Städel Museum in 2015
Director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Assumed office
July 2023
Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Assumed office
2018
Preceded byThomas P. Campbell
Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
In office
2016–2018
Director and CEO of Städel Museum, Liebieghaus, Schirn Kunsthalle
In office
2006–2016
Director of Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
In office
2001–2006
Personal details
Born (1969-07-07) 7 July 1969
Vienna, Austria
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Vienna University of Economics

Max Hollein (born 7 July 1969 in Vienna) is an Austrian art historian and the current CEO and Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He served as Director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from July 2016, until April 2018, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Hollein would become its 10th director.

Hollein oversaw both the de Young and the Legion of Honor museums, which together are the seventh most-visited art institutions in the United States, with 1.4 million visitors in 2016. Hollein joined the Fine Arts Museums in July 2016 from his position as the director of Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Städel Museum and the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung.