OUR EXPERIENCE The principals of Interim Museum Services, Elaine Heumann Gurian, Diane Frankel, Charles Frankel and Dean Anderson, are well known in the museum field and have long experience as directors, chief operating officers, board members and/or interim directors of museums and other not-for-profit organizations. One principal is assigned to each museum client and serves as that institution's continuing liaison, also supervising the interim director placed there. Elaine Heumann Gurian, was honored in 2006 by the American Association of Museums (AAM) as one of the 100 people in the last 100 years who have most contributed to the innovation, improvement and expansion of museums. In 2004, she was awarded the Distinguished Service to Museums Award, from the AAM, in recognition of lifetime accomplishment. She has served as the Acting Director of the Cranbrook Institute of Science, as Deputy Director for the United States Holocaust Museum, Deputy Director for Public Program Planning for the National Museum of the American Indian of the Smithsonian Institution, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Museums, Smithsonian Institution, Associate Director and Director of the Visitor Center, Boston Children's Museum and Director of Education of the Institute of Contemporary Art. Ms. Gurian is currently a consultant/advisor to numerous museums and visitor centers throughout the world. Gurian is the President of the Museum Group, an association of independent museum consultants. Gurian has been elected to a variety of positions on the boards of the American Association of Museums (AAM), the American chapter of the International Council on Museums (AAM/ICOM) and CECA, the international museum education committee, She is a prolific author with a focus on museums; her recent work Civilizing the Museum: The Collected Works of Elaine Heumann Gurian was published this year. Diane B. Frankel has more than twenty-five years of experience in the nonprofit cultural arena and was named by AAM this year as one of the 100 people in the last 100 years who have most contributed to the innovation, improvement and expansion of museums. She has served as founding director of the Bay Area Discovery Museum, director of graduate programs in museum studies at the John F. Kennedy University and as a funder of museum programs at the highest national level, as the director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent federal funding agency for U.S. museums and libraries, reporting to the President. She is currently a museum consultant, assisting museums in strategic planning and development and serves as an interim museum director. Ms. Frankel sits on a number of nonprofit boards including the diRosa Preserve museum. She is currently a museum consultant, assisting museums in development and strategic planning and served recently as an interim museum director. Ms. Frankel sits on a number of nonprofit boards including the diRosa Preserve museum, which she chairs. She is past president of ArtTable, a national organization for women in the visual arts. She has served on the Smithsonian Council for the Smithsonian Institution. She earned an M.A.T. in Museum Studies from George Washington University and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. Charles L. Frankel has had extensive experience as an entrepreneur and manager in private, public, and non-profit enterprises, as well as involvement in community development in the U.S. and abroad. For the past decade, he has consulted with non-profit organizations and foundations about organizational development and business planning. He has served as Interim Director of the Strybing Arboretum (now the San Francisco Botanical Garden) and has been on a variety of museum governing boards, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, where he served, until recently, as Chair. Other board memberships include the World Affairs Council of Northern California, the Goldman School of Public Policy (University of California, Berkeley), and the National Peace Corps Association. Frankel serves as the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Botswana. He received both an A.B. and M.B.A. from Harvard University. Dean Anderson currently serves as an advisor for the Barnes Foundation, is a visiting instructor in "Museion," a graduate museum studies program at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and a Trustee of the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan.