Future of Museums

Walking on the Wild Side: Innovation through a Museum Venture Fund

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After twenty-five years of stasis, the San Diego Natural History Museum needed revitalization and a little shaking up. An Evolutionary Venture Fund created an atmosphere of risk tolerance and experimentation. It spurred creative thinking and enthusiasm across the organization, revealing that even the smallest idea could help achieve goals. Learn from the museum’s successes and failures, and apply pieces of the process to your own organization.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will learn from The Nat's successes and failures, and be able to to apply the pieces of our process that are widely applicable to other organizations.
• Consider what is acceptable or sensible risk in a museum setting.
• Participants will take back to their organizations an understanding of risk and failure as an essential component of a learning organization.

Presenter(s)

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  Judy Gradwohl

  President & Chief Executive Officer
  San Diego Natural History Museum