ABSTRACT
Our museums are exponentially stronger when there is a creative culture in place that supports each individual worker’s creative practice and unites everyone toward a common purpose. Any museum is a complex organization with more moving parts—people, facilities, collections, audiences—than can be counted. Rarely is it a sleek racing machine, built all at once, but more likely a Rube Goldberg-ish contraption that has been assembled, in fits and starts, over the course of many years. A truly creative museum requires that all these moving parts work together, with each person aware of not only his or her own role but also of the entire machine.
