Mark Walhimer.
Managing Partner of Museum Planning LLC and a part-time industrial design professor, based between the United States and Mexico City.
Mark Walhimer is the managing partner of Museum Planning LLC, a museum consultancy, and a part-time industrial design professor. He divides his time between the United States and Mexico City.
Museum Planning LLC, founded in 1999, specializes in the planning, design, and management of interactive educational experiences: feasibility studies, strategic and master planning, exhibition design and project management, fabrication and installation supervision, and staff training. It has completed more than forty projects worldwide.
Mark founded the online course platform Museum Courses, and has taught at Georgia Tech, Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Universidad Iberoamericana.
Projects include turnkey services for the C.O. Polk Interactive Museum; National Park Service liaison for the “Alcatraz: Life on the Rock” traveling exhibition; project management for the Museo Interactivo de Economía (MIDE) in Mexico City; and master planning for Trans Studio Science Center.
Before founding Museum Planning LLC he worked at Discovery Science Center, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, The Tech Museum, and Liberty Science Center, and was COO of a museum exhibition design and fabrication firm.
He is the author of Museums 101, a how-to guide for creating and organizing museums. He has served three times as a juror for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, and as a peer reviewer for AAM's Museum Assessment Program and for IMLS.
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