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Howard Natural History Museum
Master Planning & Exhibition Design
City of McDonough
McDonough, Georgia
African American Museum
Master Planning
Museum of Arts and Sciences
Macon, Georgia
Frehner Museum of Natural History
Southern Utah University · Cedar City, Utah
Discovery Center at Murfree Spring
Exhibition Design
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Museum Planning LLC works with universities, cities, cultural institutions, and communities to create museums that last. Whether you have a historic building looking for a mission, a collection that has never been seen by the public, or a board ready to launch a capital campaign — we bring the experience, the methodology, and the creative vision to make it happen. Mark Walhimer is personally involved in every engagement.

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Museums 101 Bloomsbury
Museums 101
Mark Walhimer · Bloomsbury · 2015
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Designing Museum Experiences Bloomsbury
Designing Museum Experiences
Mark Walhimer · Bloomsbury · 2021
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Industrial Design, AI, and the Transformation of Cultural Systems

Museums will no longer be defined as buildings but as distributed interpretive systems. A framework for the convergence of AI, industrial design, and cultural institutions — written November 2025.

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