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  • 1.  solutions to financial distress

    Posted 03-13-2019 11:30 AM
    I am working on a book about ways museums have emerged from financial distress. If your museum has turned things around, I would love to hear from you - off list to laura@lauraroberts.com.

    In addition, I am looking for examples around a couple of specific strategies: moving the museum, shifting to a more relevant focus, rethinking ambitious plans, and changing governance structures. If you can point me towards those (or other stories) please let me know. I am particularly interested in stories of smaller museums coming out of financial crisis and emerging stronger.

    Thank you!

    Laura Roberts

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    Laura Roberts
    Faculty, Harvard Extension and
    Principal, Roberts Consulting
    Cambridge MA
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  • 2.  RE: solutions to financial distress

    Posted 03-14-2019 08:53 AM
    Hey Laura,

    The Penn Museum at the University of Pennsylvania has done a pretty amazing job with itself over the last 15 years or so.  I would reach out to them.  The Please Touch Museum moved its location, had major debt issues, and now has straightened out its financials.  Also, the Barnes Foundation (where I am at now) could be a good study of a necessary move to become financially viable.

    Conor

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    Conor Hepp
    Director of Visitor Services
    Barnes Foundation
    Philadelphia PA
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