The process for determining the direction of Historic Northeast’s Kansas City Museum over the next decade is underway.
About 25 Kansas City Museum stakeholders met this past week in the Corinthian Hall library to determine who would provide interpretive plan consulting over the next 10 years for the museum. These services would include development of exhibits and other ways of best using the museum site. During the three-hour meeting, the attributes of three finalist companies were discussed, including one from Kansas City, Esterhold & Associates.
The selection committee was comprised of a variety of people currently involved with the museum, staff from Union Station, the museum’s advisory board, city planning staff and three professional museum and gallery consultants from the metropolitan area.
Committee members favored Rhodesworks, of Champaign, Ill., over Santa Fe, N.M.-based Museum Development Associates based on their proposal and concept of how museum space could be utilized currently as well as after the completed renovation work.
“Rhodesworks just seemed to have a better grasp of where we were presently and where we wanted to go,” Scarritt Renaissance resident Erin Beier said. “It was just so much more comprehensive.”
Museum staff will begin the process of checking references for the selected vendors and make the final announcement later this spring. A presentation of the museum’s interpretive plan is tentatively scheduled for the fall.
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