Women Are Running the World’s Great Museums Into The Ground

American Thinker ^ | 25 Jul, 2026 | Thom Nickels

[MtnClimber]

Qualified women should certainly take their place at the top if they are the best candidates for the job...but that’s not what’s happening.

In 2023, the New York Times ran an article entitled, “Increasingly, Women Are Running the World’s Great Museums.” Some of the museums mentioned were the Louvre, the Vatican Museum, and the National Gallery of Art.

But it’s not only museums where women dominate. Other arts and cultural institutions seem to be on a permanent trajectory to hire women as CEOs. On the surface, this shouldn’t be a problem. Qualified women should certainly take their place at the top if they are the best candidates for the job.

But….

There seems to be a troubling common denominator here. The vast majority of the women in these positions fit a certain mold. They come pre-stamped and processed. They are monochrome, feminist, left-leaning women schooled in the progressive agenda.

That agenda might be summed up this way: they are the products of left-leaning universities where life is seen through a lens of oppressor and the oppressed. Feminist and gender ideology is also a big part of the mix, and so suddenly you have heretofore great cultural institutions like the Athenaeum of Philadelphia bowing before the latest left-wing craze to come down the pike.

The Athenaeum used to be a unique place. Once an institution of great cultural impact, it has now been “democratized” in a weedy grassroots way — thanks to the death of many of the classically educated old white men on the board and the institution’s takeover by a board of political progressives, all inspired by female leadership.

What happened to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia reminds me very much of what the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has turned into: a museum too

[Gene Eric]

being female has its facilitating factors

[Texas Eagle]

Destroying western civilization from within. Why didn’t somebody think of this earlier?

[BradyLS]

“Well, a pig like that, you don’t eat all at once!” —Norm MacDonald

[Midwesterner53]

We already know that women are entirely unsuited for judicial positions as evidenced by Amy Comey Barrett and her fellow women on the Supreme Court and all the District Court female judges issuing national decisions to hamper Trump.

[Honorary Serb]

Keep feminazis out of any position of power-including cultural power!

[Cen-Tejas]

I don’t know much about who runs museums in the world. But, I do have an opinion on women cops and women in charge of front line, combat marines or soldiers. Even though I have a girlfriend that is a cop, I think it is silly to put a woman out there and say go “fight” that group of armed, 200 pound men coming at you”. It’s insane today and will be insane for as long as the charade continues. No amount of senatorial, old white men vote seeking men debating women in combat will ever change the fact that women in combat is a dumb idea.

[MtnClimber]

Not all women are created equal. There are the rational ones and on the other extreme there are the leftist loonie insane women. It seems only the insane are welcome in the democrat party and the government bureaucracies.

[Allegra]

… on the other extreme there are the leftist loonie insane women. It seems only the insane are welcome in the democrat party and the government bureaucracies.

And since they’re so loud, they get most of the attention. I’m sick of seeing those nose-pierced, blue-haired idiots making their selfie videos while sitting in vehicles as they display their woefully low IQs. I don’t watch those anymore, even though they seem to be all over X. Tik-Tok as well, which is the man reason I don’t sign up for that.

[Donbue]

Kris Hoellen…..the B&O railroads historic museum’s director.

“She takes pride in the museum’s recent achievements, including its permanent exhibit highlighting the role physical railroads played in the Underground Railroad and its designation as a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site. Along with these, new skilled trades development and children’s sensory programs have earned the museum the Greater Baltimore Committee’s Mayor’s Award for Community Impact three times.”

Woke as can be.

They’re moving historic artefacts to warehousing, replaced with picture posters and feel good signage.
The very same thing happened to the California state railroad museum in Sacramento.
Such a shame.

[wally_bert]

As long as I have a Monopoly game, I’ll have a B&O railroad deed.

[Cen-Tejas]

I agree. Fyi, the lady friend I speak of lost her husband in the very front line of brave Ukrainian soldiers in far eastern Ukraine. She vehemently opposes women in the front lines of a hot war. I asked her about how she juxtaposes being a cop? She said, “my husband was killed fighting a guy with a bayonet in a ditch, he lost”. And, “I’m always with a male partner in a small town in the western state. The differences are huge.”

[ek_hornbeck]

It isn't just museums that the feminist harpies are running into the ground. I've noticed that bellowing and braying bull dykes seem to invariably worm their way into management positions in all sorts of non-profits: Deans at colleges and universities, museum directors, not to mention aldermen and mayors of various towns and cities, completely out of proportion to their actual numbers.

Once these parasites lock onto their hosts, they spend their time implementing DEI agendas and pushing all of the latest political and social fads while budgets/finance and maintenance are ignored or mismanaged.