Mark Walhimer & Museum Planning LLC.
Managing Partner, museum consultant, and industrial design professor.
Mark Walhimer is the Managing Partner of Museum Planning LLC, a museum consultancy, and a part-time industrial design professor. Museum Planning LLC specializes in the planning, design, and management of interactive educational experiences, with more than forty projects worldwide for an international clientele that includes science centers, art museums, history museums, libraries, and corporations.
Projects include turnkey museum services for the City of McDonough, Georgia's C.O. Polk Interactive Museum; project manager and National Park Service liaison for the "Alcatraz: Life on the Rock" traveling exhibition; project manager for the Museo Interactivo de Economía (MIDE) in Mexico City; and master planning and exhibition design for Trans Studio Science Center in Bandung, Indonesia.
Before founding Museum Planning LLC in 1999, Mark held positions at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Liberty Science Center, Discovery Science Center, and the Children's Museum of Manhattan, and served as Chief Operating Officer of a museum exhibition design and fabrication firm.
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.
One hour. No cost. No obligation. Tell me where you are and what you're trying to build.