Museum Loan Program

Through our Museum Loan Program, the Thoma Foundation has loaned over 250 artworks from our collection to more than 200 exhibitions across the globe. Our collection areas include Art of the Spanish Americas, Digital & Media Art, Post-War Painting & Sculpture, and Japanese Bamboo. We make a concerted effort to share our collection with the public, conserve the works in it, and provide documentation and research that puts each piece into context.

We accept loan requests from organizations for exhibitions and long-term loans in permanent exhibitions that provide promising new insight into the fields of art in which we collect.  We encourage exhibitions and research that coincide with ground-shifting concepts.  As a standard practice, the Foundation only loans objects to individuals, galleries, or museums able to meet standard American Association of Museums guidelines.

All artwork loan requests must meet the following criteria:

• advance the Foundation’s mission to challenge and shift perceptions, spark creativity, and connect people across cultures;
• share innovative new research and approaches in one of our art collection areas;
• establish effective presentation, messaging, and communications around the project (exhibitions with a companion publication are encouraged); and
• demonstrate professional standards and planning by making your request a minimum of six months in advance, meeting facility standards set forth by the American Association of Museums and having a proposed time on view exceeding ninety days.