Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey, United States, 2015, 2018, 2022

These data were gathered on behalf of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). The goal of the survey was to study the representational diversity within art museums through quantitative means. The survey instrument, developed by Ithaka S+R, was administered to directors of AAMD and AAM member art museums. The first cycle of data were collected in 2015 (February-March 2015), the second cycle in 2018 (July-September 2018), and the third cycle in 2022 (February-April 2022). The collected data were sent to researchers at Ithaka S+R, who appended, cleaned and analyzed the data, and presented findings in a public research report. The survey collected demographic and employment data for over 30,000 museum employees. About 27,000 of these are employed at AAMD museums, and approximately 3,000 are from (non-AAMD) AAM member museums. 332 art museums responded to the survey in 2018 and 136 of them also participated in the survey in 2015. The third cycle gathered data from 328 museums in North America between February and April 2022, encompassing records for over 30,000 individuals. The 2018 instrument was slightly expanded to capture additional specifics of the composition of art museum employees. For the third cycle, significant enhancements were made to the survey instrument, particularly in expanding the position and race categories, separating categories such as "Finance" and "Human Resources," as well as "Information Technology" and "Web Development," which were combined in the previous survey. Additionally, new positions such as "Librarian," "Public Engagement," and "Diversity/Equity/Inclusion" were included to better track changes in these areas. The data gathered in the third wave of the study offer valuable insights into the evolving demographics of the museum sector and the pandemic's impact on staffing.

本数据集由安德鲁·W·梅隆基金会委托收集，联合美国博物馆联盟（AAM）与艺术博物馆馆长协会（AAMD）共同实施。此次调查旨在通过量化方法研究艺术博物馆内的代表性多样性。调查工具由Ithaka S+R开发，并分发给AAMD及AAM会员艺术博物馆的馆长。首轮数据收集于2015年（二月至三月），第二轮于2018年（七月至九月），第三轮则于2022年（二月至四月）。收集到的数据被发送至Ithaka S+R的研究人员，经其补充、清洗和分析后，以公开研究报告的形式呈现。调查收集了超过30,000名博物馆员工的人口统计和就业数据。其中约27,000名员工服务于AAMD博物馆，大约3,000名来自（非AAMD）AAM会员博物馆。2018年共有332家艺术博物馆参与调查，其中136家也参与了2015年的调查。2022年第三轮调查收集了北美328家博物馆的数据，涵盖超过30,000名个体的记录。2018年的调查工具略有扩展，以捕捉艺术博物馆员工构成的更多具体细节。对于第三轮调查，调查工具进行了重大改进，特别是在扩展职位和种族类别方面，将“财务”和“人力资源”以及“信息技术”和“网络开发”等合并类别分开，以及引入了如“图书管理员”、“公共参与”和“多元/公平/包容”等新职位，以更好地追踪这些领域的变化。本研究第三波收集的数据为博物馆行业的人口结构演变以及疫情对人员配置的影响提供了宝贵洞见。