Museum Development Associates, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was founded in 2005 by Dr. M. Susan Barger and Barbara Hagood as a nonprofit field services organization, in order to provide a variety of services related to improving the operations and infrastructure of small, rural and start-up cultural institutions. MDA offers affordable contract services that include: training in collections care and museum practice, conservation assessments, museum inventories, and exhibition development and management. In addition, we provide a monthly online newsletter by subscription, a computer listserv, telephone consultations, ready resources, and direct consultations and support.

Our clients have included museums of history, art and archaeology, as well as economic development groups and humanities agencies.  We are the only museum field services organization in New Mexico that specializes in serving smaller institutions.

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