San Diego History Center Revisioning

The San Diego History Center is undergoing an institution-wide re-visioning process to redefine a broader purpose, a more inclusive audience, and a more impactful visitor experience. Key to the process is listening to its diverse communities and bringing them into the planning process. The master plan addresses four main components: the interpretive content and visitor experience; the operations and organization required; the facilities upgrades needed to stage a more expansive visitor experience; and, a financial business plan to insure its feasibility and sustainability. An outcome of the process was understanding how the SDHC could serve its public through four overlapping functions:

• A community cultural center where local residents can gather;

• A visitor center where out-of-town visitors can orient themselves to the region;

• A research repository the served as a caretaker of San Diego history;

• A history lab where new ways of investigating the links between San Diego’s past, present, and future are developed, tested, and implemented.

  https://sandiegohistory.org/

Roles & Responsibility

+ Led and integrated content, exhibition, programmatic, and facility planning efforts

+ Co-directed community engagement meetings and surveys

+ Coordinated market research

+ Developed visitor experience concepts and art directed fundraising visuals

+ Created functional space program and space planning options

+ Coordinated financial analysis findings with planning effort

+ Produced interim and final planning documents

Project Design Team

Gallagher & Associates – Exhibition Design & Financial Analysis

Mimi Quintanilla – Community Engagement

Bruce MacPhearson - Illustrations