De Pont Director Maria Schnyder On Why Financial Independence Is a Museum’s Greatest Asset

In April, the De Pont Museum in the Netherlands announced that Maria Schnyder would serve as its new director. The De Pont is a celebrated Dutch museum showing contemporary art, located in a former woolen mill in Tilburg. The museum’s collection is built around living artists, with the emphasis on the quality of the work over any other criteria. Schnyder joined De Pont in 2013 and spent the last four years as deputy director, which means she’s taking over an institution whose daily rhythms she already knows intimately.