MUSEUM MANAGEMENT AND OPERATING PLANS

GCAM offers a broad range of management and operational planning services to clients with varied levels of sophistication that are considering or developing new art museum projects. 

These services may include:

• Development of operating models

• Projections of costs for individual exhibitions or multi-year exhibition programming

• Projections of operating costs and expenses

• Designing staffing plans that include positions, qualifications, costs, and hiring strategies and timelines

• Policy and procedure development

• Analysis of potential funding models

A key component of GCAM’s Museum Development process for a number of its clients has been the development and proposal of Management and Operating Plans.  GCAM analyzes the critical features of each project from a management, operational, and fiscal perspective to provide an individualized model for the institution.  This may be as simple as projected annual exhibitions and operating budgets, to proposals for expanding revenues through supporting and ancillary activities, full-scale staffing plans, and spending timelines for building substantial collections.

Projects that have included this component have included:

• The Meixi Lake Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

• Hunan Broadcasting System Base Production Museum of New Media and Contemporary Art, Changsha, Hunan Province, China

• Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Baku Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Azerbaijan

• Vilnius Hermitage Museum, Lithuania