Mark Walhimer

Mark Walhimer is a managing partner of the museum consultancy Museum Planning, LLC, and an industrial design professor.

He is the founder of Museum Courses, an online platform for museum courses, and has taught at Georgia Institute o Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, and at Tecnológico de Monterrey and Universidad Iberoamericana, both in Mexico City.

Prior to starting his company, Walhimer held positions at Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana, California; the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis; the Tech Museum in San Jose, California; and Liberty Science Center. He has also been Chief Operating Officer of a museum exhibition design and fabrication firm. He is the author of Museums 101 and Designing Museum Experiences.

Walhimer has been a three-time juror for the United States Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, an American Alliance of Museums Museum Assessment Program peer reviewer, and an Institute of Museum and Library Services peer reviewer. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist grant.