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WHAT'S NEW AT LORD: NEW PROJECTS, NEW IDEAS

ICOM 2025 Gail Lord
Events / November 11, 2025
ICOM General Conference 2025

Gail will be co-leading a mentoring session for young museum professionals at ICOM Dubai. Read more for details. This year's conference theme is The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities.

Meet the Lord team Gail Lord, co-founder, Elisa Bailey, Senior Consultant, and Javier Jimenez, Managing Partner at the conference.

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Events / October 16, 2025
Accessibility Commons 2025

University of Missouri-Kansas City | October 16, 2025, 10:15 (CDT) | Virtual 

Explore how designing with inclusivity at the core - not as an afterthought - creates richer, more dynamic museum experiences. Yvonne Tang, Lord Senior Director and Steven Laurie (Royal Ontario Museum) will share lessons from collaborating with accessibility experts and people with lived experience, discussing successes, challenges, and what’s next through an open, participatory Q&A.

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Mohawk Institute
Newsletters / September 30, 2025
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day in Canada. We encourage you to become familiar with the Truth & Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action and to reflect on and learn about Indigenous histories and culture.  

This year, we’d like to share two powerful initiatives:

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Museum of the Rockies
Projects / 2023-25
Museum of the Rockies Read More
City of Tucson
Projects / 2023-24
City of Tucson Read More

WE WORK WITH...

Museums and Galleries

We work with you through visioning, planning, and implementation phases to create new cultural landmarks, weaving presence into the surrounding community.

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Cities and Placemaking

We help cities build cultural spaces that draw on existing strengths and assets, allowing you to develop local geography, architecture, and artistic talent into a cultural tourist destination. 

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Gardens & Parks

Lord Cultural Resources has been a partner in planning and executing many parks and conservancies, botanical gardens, horticultural displays, living collection, and other nature-based cultural initiatives. 

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Heritage and Historic Sites

We approach each heritage and history project with fresh eyes, developing and executing plans that are uniquely tailored to the stories that each site has to tell.

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Science Centres

We help plan and create science museums with unique presence and style. We believe in drawing on local culture and context to provide visitors with meaningful, science-rich experiences that inspire and delight.

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Archives and Libraries

We have extensive experience developing and renewing archives and libraries, transforming them into dynamic, engaging spaces and broadening their potential audiences.

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Expos, Festivals and Events

We help design ground-breaking expositions and festivals that show off a locale’s individual identity and reputation to the world. We can assist with master planning, exhibitions, design, programming, and long-term tourism development.

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Architects, Developers and Designers

When projects involve multiple creative partners, we foster collaboration and synergy to take projects further. One shared success always leads to more.

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Other

Some of our most interesting and exciting jobs don’t fit standard categories. If your vision involves ideas not described on this site, or concepts that nobody has attempted before, we are intrigued! And we want to hear from you. Our experience and discipline, far from limiting a blue-sky project, make it much more likely to succeed.

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OUR PUBLICATIONS

Manual of Museum Management, Third Edition
Manual of Museum Management
Third Edition
Gail Dexter Lord
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New Directions for University Museums
New Directions for University Museums
Brad King
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Manual of Museum Exhibitions
Manual of Museum Exhibitions
Third Edition
Maria Piacente
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