Museum Project Management and Owner’s Representative, is the creation of project teams to strategize, design, develop and produce museum projects. Projects can include museum exhibitions, museum building construction, implementation of museum strategic plans, museum educational programs and museum capital campaigns.
Museum Project Management includes:
- Negotiate and manage the purchase of custom exhibits;
- Coordination with building architecture during construction;
- Installation Supervision and Management;
- Coordinate graphics with project architect;
- Coordinate casework and specialty effects with project architect and fabricators;
- Work with vendors to prepare maintenance and repair manuals
- Coordinate casework;
- Coordinate exhibits with project architect;
- Site visits to fabricators to inspect exhibits prior to shipment;
- Shipping Coordination
- Review of exhibits upon arrival at museum;
- Supervise installation crews;
- Art direct on site changes;
- Supervise lighting aiming; and
- Coordinate with exhibition vendors and
- Staff Training
Often museums will start with a traveling exhibition prior to a permanent location, or create a traveling exhibition once the museum is opened.
*Mark Walhimer of Museum Planning, LLC Project Manager of the fabrication and installation of the International Wetlands Project (IWP), Hong Kong