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Be the change your museum needs!

We empower museum leaders to navigate complex challenges, foster innovation, and create meaningful connections.

The Academy builds strategic, digital, and community leadership capabilities to strengthen institutional resilience, relevance, and impact.

2-day intensive co-creation workshop

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Our training programmes

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2-day intensive co-creation workshop

2-day intensive co-creation workshop

25 max. participants

onsite in vienna

onsite in vienna

onsite in vienna

onsite in vienna

€ 1.400 excl. VAT

25 max. participants

€ 1.200 excl. VAT

2-day intensive co-creation workshop

25 max. participants

€ 1.200 excl. VAT

25 max. participants

€ 1.300 excl. VAT

Impact Leadership

Developing adaptive and distributed leadership, managment skills, communication and team effectiveness.

27 - 28 August 2026
25 - 27 November 2026

Change & Transformation

Designing and leading change, working with complexity, systems thinking and transformation processes.

18 - 19 June 2026
24 - 25 September 2026

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Future Revenue Strategies

Creating sustainaible income models, building partnerships and pricing strategies, new value creation and financial resilience.

22 - 23 June 2026
22 - 23 September 2026

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Audience Engagement

Design coherent, relational, impact-aligned audience engagement systems strategically.

14 - 15 September 2026
26 - 27 October 2026

How the academy works

Cohort-based learning

Practical toolkits

Expert facilitators guide each session, creating a collaborative environment for shared learning

Case-driven exercises drawn from real museum scenarios provide applicable solutions

Reflection & improvement

Peer
collaboration

Final projects align to institutional goals and strategic priorities for immediate impact

Coached application helps build leadership capacity through shared experiences

MUSEUM BOOSTER ACADEMY is the education and training platform of MUSEUM BOOSTER

We design leadership programmes specifically for the museum sector — practical, case-driven, and rooted in the realities of institutional work.

Our focus is not on abstract management theory, but on the everyday leadership skills and tools for people who shape museums from within: guiding teams, managing complexity, and translating strategy into action.

Next steps

Apply online

Join our upcoming programmes starting in June 2026 and transform your museum.


Schedule an info session

Connect with our team to learn more about the programme and how it can benefit your institution.


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