Although museums have made great strides in their ability to survive in an increasingly complex and competitive environment, it would be the height of folly to confuse institutional survival with institutional success.
Survival is only a pre-condition.
Stephen Weil, LL.B is the emeritus senior scholar with the Center for Education and Museum Studies at the Smithsonian Institution and former Deputy Director of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden. Stephen is terrific in the manner he organized and presented the week. I am truly pleased to have been a participant. Instructor Stephen Weil is our foremost authority on museums in America, and is Emeritus Senior Scholar with the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies. He served as Deputy Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution from 1974 to 1995, and previously as Administrator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Vice-President and General Manager of the Marlborough Gallery in New York.