“Jamie Bennett is currently a Thought Leader at the Toronto-based Lord Cultural Resources, where he provides strategic advice to clients like the MacArthur Foundation and the American Museum of Natural History.“

“Jacques — now the chief curator at Remai Modern in Saskatoon — creates exhibits that push people to question and challenge what they had thought a museum could be, or invites them to find a home in galleries that once seemed foreboding.”

In 2020, Lord Cultural Resources was selected to conduct the Museum’s first strategic plan to provide stability to the institution with a new vision and series of strategic goals developed in collaboration with Museum leadership and the Board. In 2021, we were re-engaged to develop a business plan and projections intended to increase attendance and earned income levels in two admission charge scenarios.

“Hinchliffe was once home to the New York Black Yankees, among others. Black and brown athletes played there when Major League Baseball did not allow them to do so alongside white players.”

Lord Cultural Resources was engaged in 2020 to develop an interpretive, facilities and business strategy for a new museum at Montclair State University in New Jersey, US, exploring the history of Hinchliffe Stadium, one of the last remaining Negro League Ballparks in North America and a site of community activity for the city and surrounding region.

“Today in Almaty, representatives of the intelligentsia visited the construction site of the Almaty Museum of Arts. Nurlan Smagulov, the collector and philanthropist who founded the museum, told about the museum implementation project and the exhibits for the first modern art museum in Central Asia.”

Lord Cultural Resources has been honoured to participate in the planning of the Almaty Museum of Arts, our fourth project in the Republic of Kazakhstan.  Since our founding in 1981, our company has undertaken more than 2,800 museum and cultural planning projects in more than 60 countries, and we are very excited to see this next chapter in the development of this important and prestigious arts and culture destination in Astana.

'The number one need wasn't more social services. It was a sense of cultural reinforcement,' says founder of The Center for Black Excellence and Culture in Madison.”

“Gallery spaces have been doubled. The new building has been made fully accessible. Parking improved. A spacious lobby, café, and museum store incorporated into the LEED-certified design. The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University in University Park, PA has everything visitors would expect of a museum opening in 2024.”

The Museum of Art at Penn State has a diverse collection of 11,000 works of art spanning from antiquity to the present but had outgrown the existing facility. A new site for a relocated, enlarged and enhanced Palmer Museum of Art at the Arboretum at Penn State was identified to help overcome issues of access, visibility and parking and be more welcoming for the general public.

“I want to thank you for your exceptional work creating a business plan for Penn State's new art museum. This was no doubt a challenging project, yet you provided a comprehensive market analysis and financial report that will greatly inform the opening of the new museum.” – Erin Coe, Museum Director

“Tom Thomson: North Star will explore the career of the prolific titular artist with over 100 paintings from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the National Gallery of Canada and various others. It is the largest selection ever displayed at the Audain.”

Lord Cultural Resources was engaged to provide space planning and business planning services and continued to provide advisory services to the selected architects through the design and development phases. Later, we were retained to conduct an independent review of the museum operation and to develop recommendations to help increase attendance and earned income levels.

“A new story exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights is highlighting the legacy of a dark time in the country’s history. From the 1950s through the ’90s, thousands of federally employed Canadians working in the military, RCMP and public service were targeted and fired because of their sexual orientation or gender expression, in what has become known as the ‘LGBT Purge.’”

Lord developed the Concept and the three-volume Master Plan, managed the International Architectural Competition, provided the Functional Program and advised on the architectural design process as well as providing an update to the Business Plan and Space List. We have continued to provide advisory services to Board and senior management on all aspects of implementation, content development, recruitment services, and the inauguration.

“Mohawk elders from Kahnawá:ke led a ceremony marking National Indigenous Peoples Day in Montreal Friday morning in the alleyway of the McCord Stewart Museum and celebrated with traditional dances and drumming.”

“Presented by the Indigenous History Group as part of the Canadian Historical Association Prizes, the award recognizes the best book about Indigenous history.”

“Blood Sport” by January Rogers, a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River, is a satirical play about Indigenous identity. It uses humour to tackle the subject of “pretendianism,” a term used to describe the phenomenon of individuals claiming false Indigenous identity.

“With more than 180 artists, I’ll Be Your Mirror shows the depth and range of the city’s creativity as well as its diverse LGBTQ+ community.”

“’The history of the local queer community is underrepresented because there is a gap in the institutional knowledge we possess. Too often, queer narratives are excluded from traditional museum spaces and public knowledge.”

“Embracing the queer art and LBGTQ artists living in our lifetime is especially critical for amplifying the narrative that has always been a foundational thread of human existence.”

“Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom as we recommit to addressing ongoing inequity. It is a celebration of our cultural roots as a source of strength and as a priceless life force that requires tending. It is a celebration of progress, even as we acknowledge how much further we have to go. It is celebration of truth and our commitment to tell our stories on our own terms, as we grapple with the complexities of our histories” - By NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD

“Delve into the long history of African-American photography, bell hooks’s essays on art and politics, a graphic novel on the Black Panther Party, and more.”

“There's one key issue to keep in mind when museums talk about embracing new commercial endeavors.”

“Italy has begun work on what the government claims will be the biggest cultural infrastructure in Europe. Part of the newly renovated Albergo dei Poveri in Naples, once a vast hospital complex and almshouse that is now largely disused, will be used as a new space for the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (MANN) in what promises to be a bright spot in the city’s ongoing heritage renaissance.”

“Across the university, art and arts programming abound. A new initiative led by Dan Weiss, former president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, aspires to boost the arts through a synergistic vision, enriching the institution and the broader community.”

The first-of-its-kind in the United States, the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Mobile Museums of Tolerance (MMOT) are free, traveling education centers utilizing innovative technology, interactive programs, and curricula to combat anti-Semitism and other forms of hate.

Coming in 2024, new buses will add to the growing fleet totalling ten mobile buses in North America: California, New York, Illinois, Florida, Hawaii and Canada. First launched in the US in Illinois, the MMOT is based on the Museum of Tolerance (MOT) in Los Angeles, California, the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which challenges visitors to confront bigotry, anti-Semitism and prejudice, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts.

“On June 13, Arthur Erickson’s beloved Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia will reopen after 18 months of closure. During this time, its iconic Great Hall was entirely rebuilt from the ground up. The epic reconstruction was steered by Vancouver architect Nick Milkovich, whom Erickson first hired in 1968 and who worked on the original building.”

“The museum space will allow locals to collect and bring in artifacts, Steen said, while the facility has three training rooms where people can sing, dance and perform by ‘merging traditional art with new technologies.’ The building will also have what Steen called a ‘great hall’ in the shape of a sod house unique to the Inuvialuit, which can hold up to 150 people.”

“Workers installing a radar system ahead of an airport construction project in the town of Kastelli in Crete stumbled on a large architectural monument, one unique for Minoan archaeology.”

“The art scene has something for everyone this season, from Kwame Brathwaite and mural collective East Los Streetscapers to Simone Leigh and Zapotec textile art.”

“Victor Wallerstein was forced to sell the painting after both Nazi persecution and discrimination in Italy.”

“Sarah Lockyear, a casualty identification co-ordinator for the Department of National Defence, tries to identify Canadians who were killed in the First and Second world wars. But in the case of the Unknown Soldier, Lockyear did the opposite.”

“The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) has announced that it will return to Thailand a sandstone pilaster dating to the twelfth century. The intricately carved architectural object was previously thought to have come from Cambodia, but provenance research revealed that it had in fact served as a vertical structural part of a doorframe in the Phanom Rung temple in eastern Thailand.”