ANN BARTON BROWN

Ann Barton Brown brings to her consulting the same enthusiasm and dedication that she brought to her thirty-five year career as a museum professional. Her experience as an executive director and curator has given her an in depth understanding of all the components necessary to the daily operation of non-profit organizations. For the past fifteen years, she has concentrated on strategic planning, collections management, administration, program development and fundraising for organizations that are beginning, building or reinventing themselves.

A self-described generalist, Ann has held leadership positions in a variety of museums from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg, VA to the American Helicopter Museum and Education Center in West Chester, PA and from the Brandywine River Museum to the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester, PA. Her solid organizational and management experiences range from developing an international traveling exhibition of art by the Swedish royal family and hosting the King and Queen of Sweden while Executive Director of the American Swedish Historical Museum to organizing two day all helicopter air shows. Ann also serves as a peer reviewer for city and state grant review boards, and on the boards of a variety of museum professional organizations.

As a consultant, Ann takes a hands-on pragmatic approach. Specializing in small and mid-size museums, historic sites as well as community arts organizations, Ann’s services are tailored to suit the needs of the individual institution. As a consequence, she has done everything from writing job descriptions to facilitating executive searches and from budget development to implementing fundraising strategies and capital campaigns and strategic planning. She derives her greatest pleasure in bringing her professional experience to volunteer-run organizations or those with only one to five full-time staff members. In addition, Ann enjoys working with multi-cultural organizations and numbers among her clients, Japanese, Latino, Chinese and African-American organizations. Through her consulting work with the Pennsylvania Federation of Historic Organizations and Museums, Ann has first hand knowledge of the issues facing museums and historic sites today. It is her goal as a consultant to help organizations take simple practical steps to meet the challenges facing them in order to ensure their long-term sustainability with the minimum increase in cost or complexity.

Ann Barton Brown
Ann Barton Brown Company
2401 Brintons Bridge Road
West Chester, PA 19382
610 793-3038 phone
610 306-6672 mobile
annbartonbrown@gmail.com

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