Dr. James M. Bradburne AADipl Muséologue/concepteurPassavantstraße 11 60596 Frankfurt am Main DEUTSCHLAND

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Work experienceFondazione Palazzo Strozzi09/2006 – present

Director General. Responsible for concept, strategy and implementationof a foundation to revitalise the public cultural programme of the PalazzoStrozzi, Florence’s largest temporary exhibition space. The FPS is one ofItaly’s first public-private foundations, and was created in July 2006 bythe City of Florence, the Province of Florence, the Chamber of Commerceand an Association of Private Partners. The Palazzo Strozzi aims to offera wide range of major exhibitions, cultural events and educationalprogrammes including a new centre for contemporary culture, LaStrozzina.

Next Generation foundation01/2003 – 08/2006

Director. Responsible for concept, strategy and implementation of afoundation to promote creativity, learning and play as a philanthropicvehicle for the CEO of LEGO, Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen. The NGf wasregistered as a charity in the UK in 2003, and was widely recognised forits innovative web-based platform, the Map of Creativity, its projects,such as Making Playful Learning Visible, and its support in bringingresearchers from the developing world to attend internationalconferences in London. The work of the NGf can be seen onwww.ngf.org.uk

Museum für Angewandte Kunst (mak.frankfurt)01/1999 – 12/2002

General Director. Responsible for all aspects of the museum’s operations,reporting to the Deputy Mayor for Culture and the City Council ofFrankfurt. Relaunched the museum (formerly the Crafts Museum orMuseum für Kunsthandwerk) in 2000 as the Museum for Applied Art witha major design collection and a new emphasis on ‘digital craft’ – acollection of websites and computer games (www.digitalcraft.org).Revamped the museum’s programme with exhibitions including ‘Blood:art, power, politics and pathology’, extended opening hours ‘till 8pmdaily, bilingual texts throughout, and wireless internet throughout (aEuropean first). Revitalised the museum shop mak.3 and the museumrestaurant Emma Metzler. Visitor numbers doubled in three years, andbuilt a group of ten, 3-year museum partners to support the museumsnew programmes. The museum generated more income from privatesources than any other Frankfurt museum in the same period.

newMetropolis science and technology centre, Amsterdam09/1994 – 12/1998

Head of Design, Education and Programming. Invited to lead the designteam for the new Dutch national science and technology centre.Responsible for overseeing the development of 3.000+m2 of newinteractive exhibitions over four floors in a new-build Renzo Pianobuilding. Responsible for the concept and implementation of a strategy toincrease the ‘holding power’ of traditional interactive exhibits.Responsibilities grew to include directing the institution’s researchprogramme, which resulted in 28 published papers, 8 Master theses, andthe initiation of 3 doctoral theses by the end of 1998.

James M. Bradburne, muséologue09/1989 – 08/1994

Independent consultant and exhibition specialist. Clients includedUNESCO, UNICEF, Science Alberta Foundation, Science World, andInterCultura. Exhibitions included The Gates of Mystery (Walters ArtGallery/V&A), African Zion (Walters Art Gallery), Beyond the Naked Eyeand Body in the Library (Science Alberta), Mine Games (Science World)

Teaching Experience1989 Occasional seminars, museum studies

Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA), Paris1992 Co-organiser, doctoral programme, museology: ‘La mise en scène de la science’

Palais de la Découverte, Paris1995 Science in Public Places

European Summer SchoolUniversity of Limburg, Maastricht

1997 Museums as instrument of changeEuropean Summer SchoolUniversity of Twente, Enschede

2004/5 Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit, AmsterdamAthena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in Health and Life SciencesPublic Understanding of Science

2005/6 E. Desmond Lee Distinguished Visiting ProfessorWebster University, St. Louis, MissouriFaculty of Education

Selected recent publications1998 Dinosaurs and White Elephants: the science centre in the 21st century

Public Understanding of Science 7 (1998) pp. 237 - 253 Collecting Ourselves Art Quarterly, London: Autumn 1998, pp.15 - 16 Turning Visitors into Users Nordisk Museologi: 1998 - 1, pp.39 – 53

1999 Cultural Museums in the 21 st century in Dansk Tidsskrift for Museumsformlidling Nr.18, pp. 137 – 147, Moesgard; Arbus The Poverty of Nations in Heritage and Museums: Shaping national Identitypp. 379 – 391 Robert Gordon University, Donhead; Shaftesbury

2000 Interaction in the museum: observing supporting learning Libri/Books on Demand, Hamburg: 2000

2001 Changes of ArtVisuell, Deutsche Bank, London/Frankfurt pp. 44 - 48Laboratory for ChangeAlliage No. 44, automne 2001 A new strategic approach to the museum and its relationship to societyJournal of Museum Management and Curatorship, Volume 19, 2001, London pp 75 - 85 Going Public revisited: Science museums, debate and democracyReview of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, University of PennsylvaniaVolume 23 Number 4 (2001) pp. 349 – 381

2002 Charm and Chairs: the future of museums in the 21 st century Journal of Museum Education, Vol. 26, Nr. 3, Fall 2001 pp. 3 – 9The museum time bomb: Overbuilt, overtraded, overdrawnto appear in Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship, Elsevier, London

Selected Awards1982 Graphic Designers of Canada

Special Citation (with David Hornblow/Sue Jeffreys)First Prize, Promotional Literature

1983 Technical Communicators AssociationFirst Prize, Glenayre 2020 User Manual/Guide Technique

1988 9th Meeting of the Institute for Systems Research, ViennaBest Paper

1994 ID (International Design) MagazineHonourable mention, EnvironmentsMine Games (with Drew Ann Wake, Gordon Filewych et al.)

1996 Financial Post Design Effectiveness AwardFirst in category, Interactive DesignMine Games (with Drew Ann Wake, Gordon Filewych et al.)

1998 Industrie Forum Design Hannover (iF)First Prize for Interaction Design - 'Superbankers'newMetropolis (with W. v. Brunschot, N. Eltink et al.)KIvI (Royal Engineering Society, Netherlands)Conrad Prize for Science and Technology CommunicationnewMetropolisDanish Princes AwardSilver Medal, Environmental Education – ‘Double Wedding’computer game (with Drew Ann Wake) newMetropolis

2001 Computerworld Honors Program/Search for New HeroesCertificate of AchievementDigital Craft Project, (with Franziska Nori) mak.frankfurt

Selected memberships2005- Member, Advisory Board, Dialogmuseum, Frankfurt am Main

2004- Member, Advisory Board, Institute for the Future of the Book, Columbia University2003- Member, Advisory Board, Urban Learning Space, Glasgow2002-2005 Member, Hochschulrat Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach2001- Member, Advisory Board, Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul1999-2006 Vice Chairman, Bundesverband Kunsthandwerk (German Crafts Council)1991- Member, International Council of Museums (ICOM)1989- Founding Member, History of Science Section,

The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA)1987- Member, The Chartered Society of Designers (Great Britain)

Education1972-74 University of Toronto1984-86 Royal Architectural Association Syllabus Programme, Vancouver1986-89 The Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, England1989 - 2000 The University of Amsterdam1998 The Getty Leadership Institute for Museum Management (MMI)

LanguagesSpoken, read & written: French, EnglishSpoken & read: Russian, German, Italian, Dutch

Personal detailsBorn: 30 September 1955Nationality: Canadian/BritishMarital status: married