Elaine Heumann Gurian
Elaine Heumann Gurian is a consultant/advisor to museums and visitor centers worldwide who are beginning, building or reinventing themselves. Ms. Gurian is also a teacher, trainer and lecturer at many academic and in-service programs of museum studies. Elaine has held several prestigious positions within the Smithsonian including Deputy Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Deputy Director for Public Program Planning for the National Museum of the American Indian, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Museums. For sixteen years, she was the Director of the Exhibit Center, the public facility of the Boston Children’s Museum. Ms. Gurian is widely published. In 2006, Routledge published her volume, Civilizing the Museum: the Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian. She is editor for the volume. Institutional Trauma: The Effect of Major Change on Museum Staff and currently on the editorial board of the journal, Curator. In 2006, she was inducted as one of the 100 Centennial Honor Roll members by the American Association of Museums, who also honored her with the Distinguished Service to Museums Awards in 2004, the most prestigious recognition in the American museum profession. http://www.egurian.com/
