March 05, 2021 at 4:35pm
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, who served as director of Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, has resigned following twenty-two years on the job. She has said she will depart the institution in October, two months ahead of the expiration of her most-recent five-year contract, in December, in order to facilitate a smooth transition for her replacement as the museum celebrates its thirtieth anniversary.
A tireless advocate for Australian art, Macgregor is famously credited with leading the institution from near bankruptcy to becoming the world’s most visited contemporary art museum. Welcoming fewer than a hundred thousand visitors annually at her arrival, the museum before Covid-19 struck was accommodating more than a million visitors per year, half of whom were under the age of thirty-five. Among her numerous accomplishments were the abolishing of admission fees, the establishment of the National Centre for Creative Learning,
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor steps down as director of the MCA Australia
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An enormous legacy : Museum of Contemporary Art director calls it quits after 22 years
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