Museum Planning
3 min readSep 17, 2023

Museums Require Civil Society

Factors Influencing Museum Sustainability and Indicators for Museum Sustainability Measurement by Izabela Luiza Pop and Anca Borza

I just came back from the supermarket. At the supermarket, a woman was having a very loud conversation. Her hair covered her ears, so you couldn’t tell she was speaking to someone on an ear microphone. It was disconcerting. I was in the vegetable section, and all the other people in the area were looking at each other, unsure if the woman was speaking to us. It was awkward because she was speaking loudly, and she was also using profanity. She was sometimes…

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Mark Walhimer is the managing partner of Museum Planning, LLC, and the author of Museums 101 (2015) and Designing Museum Experiences (2021).