The first digital platform for art donations
Museum Exchange connects donors with museums, hospitals, universities, and other nonprofit organizations across North America and manages every step of the donation process.
Museum Exchange is impacting communities across North America
300+
Museums
50+
Hospitals & Universities
45+
States & Provinces
1,000+
Artworks Donated
We make donating art easy and accessible so you can focus on collecting.
Whether it’s your first or hundredth time donating an artwork,
or you’re a small regional institution or major metropolitan museum,
we’re here to guide you through the art donation process.
Unlock philanthropic giving
Museum Exchange is a full-service art donation solution that streamlines the process of charitable giving for donors and institutions alike.
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Expansive network of institutions
Our donation recipient network includes over 300 of the leading art museums in North America drawn from the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and over 50 hospitals, universities, and other nonprofit organizations, providing unparalleled options for your charitable giving.
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First-of-its-kind donation management software
We simplified the complex, analog system of processing art donations by bringing it online and harnessing new digital technologies. Our proprietary art donation management software guides you through every step of the donation process—from matching a donor and an institution to signing the deed of gift and tax receipt, and everything in between.
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Trusted art valuations by our appraiser partners
Look no further than our network of third party qualified art appraisers for all your tax filing needs. We vetted them so you don’t have to and negotiated preferred flat rates so you know your costs up front and benefit from our discounted pricing. Our art appraiser partners also offer valuation estimate reports, if you are still deciding whether donation is the best option for you.
“Museum Exchange is evolving the ways in which museums consider and receive gifts of works of art to their collections. This unique and engaging platform has democratized the collector-museum relationship, providing a means for enabling serious collectors to place stellar works of art with worthy museum collections.”
— Holly E. Hughes, Godin-Spaulding Senior Curator for the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
“It’s a marvelous initiative. Collectors almost always want to move objects into a place where they will be seen, and will serve a purpose. And that’s difficult. The most precious commodity in the New York art world is not money, it’s not art, it’s museum real estate.”
— Gary Tinterow, Director, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
