On behalf of the Prince George’s County Planning Department, the Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council, we are pleased to make available for viewing and download the Prince George's County Cultural Arts Study.

Lord Cultural Resources worked with the commission over an eighteen-month period to develop this study.

While the regular meeting of the City Council of Oklahoma City was much shorter than usual Tuesday, the Council still managed to approve an operating agreement for the coming Clara Luper Civil Rights Center project from MAPS 4. Project Director Christina L. Beatty explained to the Council that the group had been receiving consultation from Lord Cultural Resources, a global firm that helps create institutions for cultural preservation.

Madame Nathalie Bondil, directrice du département du musée et des expositions de l’Institut du monde arabe à Paris et Sage de l’Université de Montréal, vous invite à participer à la première école d’été « ARTS ET SANTÉ : LA PLACE DE LA MUSÉOTHÉRAPIE » qui aura lieu à Montréal, du lundi 29 août au vendredi 2 septembre 2022, en formule hybride (en présence et en visio-conférence), en français.

Gail Lord is a museum planner and President and Co-founder of Lord Cultural Resources. She’s worked on the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, The National African American Museum, the Louvre, the Smithosian…. among others.

As the UAE prepares to celebrate Emirati Women's Day, we profile three UAE women - Mariam Al Dhaheri, Sara Al Mahmoud and Nada Al Aydaroos - who have played an integral role in promoting Louvre Abu Dhabi – one of the largest cultural and art destinations in the country.

The conference was a huge success. Over 500 representatives from different museums worldwide voted to pass a new museum definition. With a 92% vote, the definition for the first time includes words like "inclusivity," "accessibility," "sustainability," and "ethics." Our consultant Heloise Amez-Droz attended the event and reports on what happened there. 

On 6 June 2019, Dr Lori Bettison-Varga, president and director of the Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC), announced the beginning of a long-term initiative to reimagine and renovate one of the institution’s most prized components: its 12-acre campus in Hancock Park, which is home to the world-renowned La Brea Tar Pits and the George C. Page Museum.

Canadian icon and Hollywood superhero Simu Liu is collaborating with two Toronto developers on a new mixed-use condo project in downtown Toronto.

Liu is bringing his star power to 8 Elm, a 69-storey tower by Capital Developments and Reserve Properties at Yonge and Dundas streets that will integrate a hospitality-inspired design, heritage components and modern architecture.

Lord has been engaged to develop a Heritage Interpretive Plan that speaks to the history of the building.

Rennie believes the museum will be a good custodian of the building which dates back to 1889.

Blooloop is pleased to announce the judging panel for this year’s Museum Influencer List. The List is held in association with Barco this year, a global technology leader in developing networked visualisation solutions for museums and cultural and entertainment attractions.

Five years ago, CFM’s TrendsWatch report examined how museums are helping society confront the need for criminal justice reform. Historic sites play an important role in this work, with institutions like the Eastern State Penitentiary in Pennsylvania, and Constitution Hall in South Africa illuminating the long-term damage of mass incarceration. In today’s guest post Brent D. Glass, Director Emeritus of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and now executive director of the Sing Sing Prison Museum, tells us about this new museum joining the roster of sites challenging us to create a more equitable future.

The City of Charlotte will host in August its first community events to officially launch public engagement efforts that will shape the Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan.

The city is committed to ensuring the plan reflects what the community wants for the future of local arts and culture. To that end, the planning team wants to hear from people across the area, whether they live, work, or play in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

The City engaged Lord Cultural Resources to lead a team of consultants that includes Fourth Economy and Amplify Charlotte, to facilitate the first Charlotte Arts and Culture Plan.

Elizabeth L. Hillman, the president of Mills College, has been appointed president and chief executive of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in Lower Manhattan.

• What Is a Museum? 
• Designing Museum Experiences
• Endowment Essentials for Museums
• Family Spaces in Art Museums 

Artworks Gwinnett is launching a yearlong process for Create Gwinnett, its first-ever Arts and Creative Economy Master Plan, and wants to hear from residents across Gwinnett County. Create Gwinnett focuses on how arts and culture help foster economic prosperity in the county. It’s the result of a goal identified in Gwinnett County’s 2040 Unified Plan: to enhance Gwinnett’s profile as a cultural destination where the arts educate, elevate and inspire.

Lord has been engaged to lead a team of consultants that includes Pond Co. and Fourth Economy in developing an Arts and Creative Economy Master Plan.

The South African Museums Association (SAMA) will take place from 6-8 September 2022 as a hybrid conference. The theme of the conference is ‘The Power of Museums’ borrowed from the International Council of Museums’ (ICOM) International Museum Day for 2022. Gail Lord is the keynote speaker this year.

Season 3 of our video series has come to an end. We featured institutions such as the Mackenzie Art Gallery, the National Urban League, V&A East, the Center for Black Excellence and Culture and many more. Catch up on what you missed here. If you watched, we would like your feedback. What worked, what didn’t? Please help us make Culture Break even better by sharing your thoughts!

Today, the New Orleans Recreation Development Foundation (NORDF) announced the selection of Design Workshop to lead the Citywide Parks and Recreation Master Plan. The RFP selection committee met in a public meeting on July 19, 2022, at the Rosenwald Recreation Center and awarded the contract to Design Workshop based on the evaluation criteria in the RFP.

Lord Cultural Resources will work closely with Design Workshop to facilitate community engagement sessions as part of the Master Planning process.

Natasha Henry wants us to know about the people of African descent once held in bondage in Upper Canada. She wants us to know their names and recognize their personal struggles. She wants, a couple of hundred years later, to finally humanize the people who’ve often gone nameless and faceless in our written history.

Lord has been engaged to provide research and a needs assessment for the Ontario Black History Society.

The measure will go into effect in November and it is a victory for the grassroots organizations that have long called for salary transparency in the museum sector.

The Academy Museum in Los Angeles is celebrating key moments in Black cinema, from the 1890s until 1971. Its new exhibition, "Regeneration," includes a clip of Hattie McDaniel, the first Black woman to win an Academy Award, as she gives her 1940 acceptance speech.

Glasglow held a ceremony on Friday to officially repatriate seven Indian cultural artefacts looted during British colonial rule, calling it a first for a UK museum service.

Jason Hunt comes from a long line of renowned First Nations artists whose works and livelihoods are being undermined by fraudulent reproductions of their work.

Blurred Boundaries invites the viewer to recognize the ways in which queer art is not separate or other, but is actually always all around us.

Curator Amber-Dawn Bear Robe brings together historic and contemporary Native clothing designs at Santa Fe Indian Market.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed a new law that will require museums to acknowledge artworks that were stolen from Jews by the Nazis. Crucially, the law extends the definition of this kind of theft to include forced sales of art.

Advocacy groups are pushing for a 5% royalty in resales, which would pertain even after the artist dies, in which case the funds would go to their estate.

The passing of the Slavery Abolition Act freed more than 800,000 people across the Caribbean, South Africa and Canada, initiating Emancipation Day Celebrations in Ontario in places like Windsor, St. Catharines, Collingwood, Woodstock, Amherstburg and Toronto.

The objects, which date to between 300 and 600 B.C.E., sat in a storage box for 15 years.

Museum directors ‘in absolute despair’ at latest blow after Covid decline in revenues.

Delhi's first museum dedicated to the partition of India is set open its doors at the end of this year following Covid-related delays. It is the sister museum to one located in Amritsar in the northern state of Punjab. That museum was the first of its kind to focus on the 75-year-old event, which is still the largest singular displacement of people in history.

More than a decade since it broke ground, the long-awaited Taipei Performing Arts Center opened to the public in Taiwan's capital last week. After years of construction delays and debates over a budget that has climbed to 6.7 billion New Taiwan dollars ($223 million), attention can finally turn to the dozens of productions being staged this fall -- and to a venue that is radically rethinking the way theaters operate.

More than two years after the start of the coronavirus shutdowns, the Bay Area’s visual art scene has not only rebounded from pandemic delays, but also has pushed forward with exciting new developments.