Lindsey Richardson has more than 20 years’ experience working with museums and museum collections. Her background includes successful cataloguing, inventory, and digitization projects, collections moves and deaccessions, writing collections management policies, assessments and strategic plans, writing grant proposals to IMLS and NEH, implementing and reporting grant-funded projects, developing exhibits of all sizes and a variety of topics from research to installation, developing and delivering public programs on related topics, developing and implementing online collections databases, and other digital and interactive content, as well as working with educators and community-members on collaborative projects including artist installations, workshops and object-based distance-learning programs for school groups and senior citizens. As a consultant, Lindsey has worked on projects large and small, from targeted collections management to high-level assessments and problem-solving, for all kinds of museums and professional organizations.
Experience
2020-present
Independent consultant
2008-2020
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. Curator of Collections.
2003-2008
Boston Children’s Museum. Curator of Collections.
2001-2003
City of Nacogdoches, Texas. Historic Sites Manager and Museum Director.
2000
Brooklyn Museum of Art. Collections Cataloger.
1998-2000
Melbourne Museum (was the Museum of Victoria). Collections Move Assistant.
Education
2000-2001 Oxford University
Masters of Science in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography.
1999 Australian National University
Graduate resident, National Museums, National Histories.
1991-1995 Harvard University
AB magna cum laude Social Anthropology.
1993-1994 University of Melbourne
Australian and Aboriginal history and culture.
Museum Person 