Cleveland Museum of Art Taps NYC Museum Veteran as Director

The Cleveland Museum of Art’s board voted unanimously Tuesday to appoint William M. Griswold, director of New York’s Morgan Library & Museum, as its new leader, The Plain Dealer writes.

Mr. Griswold will join the Cleveland institution in the fall. He replaces David Franklin, who oversaw completion of the museum’s ambitious $320-million expansion but resigned abruptly in October 2013 after being accused of lying to trustees to cover up an extramarital affair with an employee who later committed suicide.

Mr. Griswold led the Morgan, a Manhattan repository for books, manuscripts, prints, and drawings, for seven years and ran the Minneapolis Institute of Arts from 2005 to 2007. The Pennsylvania native, who holds a doctorate in art history from the Courtauld Institute in London, brings to Cleveland a “complete package” of skills in scholarship, fundraising, and managing large cultural institutions, said Peter Raskind, a Cleveland museum board member who led the search committee.