Gail Dexter Lord Author & Editor

Barry Lord is co-founder and director of Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management Ltd. He has worked as a curator, art critic, historian, museum education officer, and since 1981 as a museum planner throughout Canada, the USA, the UK, continental Europe, Australia, and both East and West Asia. He was co-editor of Planning Our Museums (1983) and co-author of The Cost of Collecting (1989) and The Manual of Museum Management (1997). Barry has taught museum planning and management in Europe, Asia, and North America. Gail Dexter Lord is co-founder and director of Lord Cultural Resources Planning and Management Ltd. She has worked as an art critic and cultural animator and since 1981 has directed several hundred museum planning studies in the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America and is a favorite speaker at conferences and in university courses on this subject on all these continents. She was also co-editor of Planning Our Museums (1983) and co-author of The Cost of Collecting (1989) and The Manual of Museum Management (1997).