ADVISORY FOR THE MUSEUM WORLD
We help museums answer the questions that matter.
MUSEUM BOOSTER is a Vienna-based boutique advisory for the museum and cultural-institution sector. Working with museums and science centres across four continents, we unite institutions around shared challenges, build collective insight, and deliver tailored research and advisory support — turning knowledge into practical action and innovation.
Where are you starting from?
“We want to know where we stand”
“We need to make a decision”
Advisory & Feasibility →
“We want our team to grow and evolve”
Trainings & Courses →
“We want to shape what comes next”
Future Museum →
FLAGSHIP - FUTURE MUSEUM
The intelligence network for museums that think ahead.
Future Museum is our flagship community: museums and science centres from around the world researching the future of the field — together.
Participants gain direct access to everything the project generates: cross-institutional research, trend intelligence, working sessions, and a peer network of institutions asking the same questions you are. The full body of Future Museum intelligence is available exclusively to participants.
For directors and innovation leads who want continuous insight, not one-off reports.
RESEARCH & BENCHMARKING
Know where you stand — and what's coming.
Research outcomes from the Future Museum white papers, our project's findings shared publicly with the sector, and the Museum Innovation Barometer, now relaunching to track where museums are heading before they arrive. Conducted with Museum Leadership House, our non-profit think tank, and through EU research projects including DOORS and EXCENTRIC. And commercial intelligence — the Museum Shop Benchmarking: hard numbers on what museum and science centre shops actually earn. It began inside Future Museum; today it runs sector-wide.
For leadership and commercial teams who need evidence and to know what is ahead.
featured case
Vienna Museums Innovation Grant Design
The evidence base that shaped Vienna’s first museum grant, built from data on 126 museums.
ADVISORY & FEASIBILITY
Decisions you can defend — to your board, your funders, your team.
Feasibility studies, market analysis, revenue models, experience concepts, and business cases. Your question, answered by the team that runs the museum field's intelligence engine: every study we deliver draws on insight from dozens of institutions across four continents.
For institutions facing an investment, expansion, or strategic crossroads.
featured case
Strategy Workshop - Jüdisches Museum Wien
A decision-ready roadmap for positioning, audience, and revenue. →
TRAININGS & COURSES
Practical training for the people who run museums.
Hands-on courses in revenue strategies, change and transformation, audience engagement, and impact leadership — plus custom workshops delivered in-house for your team, from visitor journey redesign to sustainability strategy.
For teams and rising leaders building capability, not just attending talks.
Why our answers are different
Everything we deliver draws on a standing observatory of the museum field.
Future Museum
Flagship research community
DOORS
EU digital incubator, Horizon Europe
Museum Leadership House
Non-profit think tank
Museum Innovation Barometer
Tracking innovation, 5+ years
EXCENTRIC
Horizon Europe, data practices
Museum & Science Centre Retail Benchmarking
Comparative commercial data
Institutions we support
Can we help?
If you are weighing a decision, planning what’s next, or simply want to compare notes - get in touch. We enjoy conversation that lead somewhere interesting.
And yes, we reply to emails quickly.