Our 2024 Roundup

We’ve had an extraordinary year of growth and change and are so grateful for the opportunity to work on so many incredibly exciting projects. Here’s a peek into what 2024 had in store for us.

New Leadership

Our biggest news of the year happened in May, when our co-founder Gail Lord announced that Joy Bailey-Bryant, Javier Jimenez and Dov Goldstein were joining her in leading Lord into the future: “These three incredible people are a huge part of Lord’s current and growing success as the world’s most impactful, thoughtful and insightful cultural planning firm.”

Openings

We also celebrated some exciting openings:

Hinchliffe Stadium, Paterson, New Jersey
Interpretive, Facilities and Business Strategy
Union Station, Toronto
Heritage Interpretive Plan (HIP) and Exhibition Development
The Crow Museum of Asian Art at the University of Texas, Dallas
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
Facility Planning, Implementation Planning, Study Tour
The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State
Business Plan and Projections
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza
Exhibition Project and Construction Management
Rockford Region Cultural Plan
“We are so proud to see this cultural plan already paying such impactful dividends and demonstrating the power of community collaboration to strengthen arts and culture.”– Eve Moros Ortega, Director, Lord Cultural Resources

Awards

We were thrilled to see our clients’ projects receive so many awards this year. Here are some of the highlights:

Hinchliffe Stadium
Paterson, New Jersey

2024 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Award, presented by the National Trust for Historic Preservation

Bobby Orr Hall of Fame
Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada

CASH (Canadian Association for Sport Heritage) Award of Excellence, 2022-2023
ISHY (International Sports Heritage Association) 2024 Award for New Exhibit.

The Leaf at Assiniboine Park
Winnipeg, Canada

Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Award of Excellence, 2024

Misko-Aki: Confluence of Cultures
Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada

Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Exhibitions, 2024
Tourism Industry Association of Ontario, Indigenous Tourism Award Finalist, 2024

Joy Bailey-Bryant Awarded Notable Black Leader

Crain’s New York Business named Joy Bailey-Bryant, our president and managing partner, as one of this year’s Notable Black Leaders.

Books

Our team also published two books this year:

Manual of Museum Management - Third Edition, by our co-founder Gail Dexter Lord, is an exciting guide to managing museums in a time of sweeping changes.

Edited by Brad King, New Directions for University Museums is intended to help university museum leaders plan strategically in the context of the issues and needs of the 2020s by examining trends affecting them and directions in response to those forces.

We wish everyone a very happy new year, and thank you all so much for your support over the past year. We can’t wait to work together in 2025 to make the world a better place through culture.

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