Mark Walhimer.
Managing Partner, Museum Planning LLC. Author of Museums 101 and Designing Museum Experiences.
Mark Walhimer is the Managing Partner of Museum Planning LLC and the author of Museums 101 (2015) and Designing Museum Experiences (2021). He has worked with museums across the United States and internationally on planning, design, and institutional strategy since 1992.
Museum Planning LLC, founded in 1999, specializes in the full arc of museum development, from feasibility through opening day: community assessment, strategic planning, business planning and pro forma, master planning, exhibition design, capital campaign strategy, operational planning, and post-opening evaluation. More than forty museums over more than 25 years, including science centers, art museums, natural history museums, children's museums, history museums, and cultural centers, in the United States, Mexico, and internationally.
Before founding Museum Planning LLC, Mark worked inside institutions at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Liberty Science Center, Discovery Science Center, and the Children's Museum of Manhattan. He also served as Chief Operating Officer of a museum fabrication studio. He holds an M.S. in Industrial Design and Exhibition Design from Pratt Institute and a B.A. in Studio Art from Skidmore College.
The plans I produce are designed to be built, not filed. I have been on the other side of the table when a consultant delivers a master plan. I know what happens to that document when the meeting ends.
Mark Walhimer · Managing PartnerEvery museum begins with a conversation.
Founders, directors, boards, and students: tell me where you are and what you're trying to build.