Leadership

Preventing Curatorial Apocalypse: Lessons Learned from Renovating Museums

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Many lessons for designing new museums can be drawn from renovating existing institutions. The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum is undergoing a massive renovation that will address many of the problems it has experienced since opening in 1976. Through their collaboration on this project, architects, curators, and facilities managers have gleaned valuable insights. Learn from their experience and identify key questions to ask before starting a museum construction or renovation project.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify some of the key questions museum professionals—as well as architects and engineers—should ask during the initial design phases of a museum construction or renovation project
• Evaluate short-term versus long-term factors that may influence design decisions.
• Describe how the need to protect artifacts may inform the design of the architecture and building systems while also engaging the public

Moderator(s)

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  Michael Henry

  Senior Design Manager
  Smithsonian Institution

Panelist(s)

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  Malcolm Collum

  Chief Conservator
  Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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  Colin MacKillop

  Senior Associate
  Quinn Evans Architects
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  Leora Mirvish

  Principal
  Quinn Evans Architects
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  Gary Woodall

  Senior Designer
  Gary Steffy Lighting Design Inc.