(As of May 2010)

• MAM has been designated a Major Arts Institution by the NJ State Council on the Arts for 12 years in succession (2010). In 2010, the Arts Council also accorded MAM a Citation of Excellence.
• The catalogue published in conjunction with MAM's Cézanne and American Modernism exhibition won an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Museum Publications Design competition, sponsored by the American Association of Museums, the only national juried competition of its kind. The catalogue was edited by MAM's Chief Curator Gail Stavitsky and The Baltimore Museum of Art's Senior Curator Katherine Rothkopf.
• MAM has been named a "Best of NJ" by New Jersey Monthly readers, as featured in the April 2010 issue of the magazine.
• MAM's exhibition A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund has been designated an American Masterpiece by the NJ State Council on the Arts for the 2009-10 season. American Masterpieces is an initiative designed by the National Endowment for the Arts to introduce Americans to the best of our nation's cultural and artistic legacy.
• MAM's new website, launched in December 2008, won an Award of Excellence for visual design and aesthetics in the 2009 American Web Design Awards competition sponsored by Graphic Design USA, a monthly news magazine for graphic designers.
• MAM received a 2007 ranking of four stars--the highest possible--from Charity Navigator, an independent charity evaluator whose ratings are key to donor confidence in nonprofit organizations.
• For its contributions to art and culture, MAM received the 2008 Gari Melchers Memorial Award from the Artists’ Fellowship, a private, New York charitable foundation that assists professional fine artists and their families in emergencies and periods of need.
• The Star-Ledger named MAM’s Drawing Friends: Hedda Sterne’s Portraititis a “must-do” for 2008.
•  The Star-Ledger ranked MAM’s Reflecting Culture: The Evolution of American Comic Book Superheroes among the 10 best art shows of 2007 in New Jersey and New York.
• MAM curator Twig Johnson was the 2007 recipient of the John Cotton Dana Award for outstanding museum work by the NJ Association of Museums. 
• MAM was selected as the NJ State recipient of 50 works of Minimal and Conceptual art, in the first ten of the 50-state donation program administered by the National Gallery of Art of gifts from its Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States (2008) initiative. 
• MAM is one of 70 leading cultural institutions nationwide, and only one of three in NJ, to be selected for Bank of America’s Museums on Us™ program, which provides cardholders free access to these institutions during the first weekend of every month from May 1, 2008, through May 31, 2009.
• The widow of the artist Roy Lichtenstein and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation have made a promised gift on deposit of Lichtenstein’s Mythological Meeting (1979) to the Museum in honor of the Museum’s organization of Roy Lichtenstein: American Indian Encounters. 
• Anxious Objects: Willie Cole’s Favorite Brands traveled to five other American museums and was seen by over 100,000 viewers. 
• Cézanne and American Modernism, opening September 13, 2009, has received the most significant support of any project in the Museum’s history, with major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Leir Charitable Foundations, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.
• MAM was selected in 2008 as a Regional Affiliate of the Alliance for Young Writers and Artists, becoming the sole affiliate sponsor for the alliance for the State of New Jersey. The alliance administers the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a national program that recognizes outstanding visual art and writing created by teenagers.

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