The Museum Box is the leading international strategy and traveling exhibitions partner for museums. We are known for our thoughtful and personal approach to museum business that draws on decades of experience working with institutions of all scales. Our team of museum professionals offer a selection of turnkey and customized services. We position our clients to access our vast global network of 500+ museums, to expand their domestic and global footprints, and to raise vital funds in support of their missions.
Empowering museums on the global stage
Our Team
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Anna is responsible for the company’s overall operations. She hires and manages staff, identifies and pursues partnerships and collaborations and oversees the day to day of finance and accounting.
Prior to founding The Museum Box, Anna worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) for 15 years where she developed expertise in operating global exhibition programs as Director of Collections Partnership. Her department oversaw the museum’s extensive traveling exhibitions program, as well as the MFA’s sister museum in Japan and the global strategy for the museum at large. During her tenure at the MFA, traveling exhibitions reached over 15 million visitors at 140 venues on four continents.
Anna is an alumna of Boston University and the Harvard Business School.
anna@themuseumbox.com
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David is the President of The Museum Box. He is responsible for developing new partnerships with museums across Europe and Asia.
For close to 15 years David has been responsible for developing and delivering exhibitions of the highest caliber for museums in North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. He has produced over 200 exhibitions, and is responsible for a large number of major museum partnerships, including a sustainable partnership between the Uffizi and Hong Kong government, a 5-year exhibition program focused on Italian Old Masters in Japan, and the touring exhibition Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism. In 2017, David received the Japanese Ambassador’s commendation for his contribution to Japan-Italy relations and his role in 150th anniversary celebrations.
David is an alumnus of the University of London - SOAS.
david@themuseumbox.com
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Jillian is a Project Manager for The Museum Box. Before working for The Museum Box, Jillian held various roles in Exhibitions Management and Administration at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Jillian has dedicated the majority of the last decade to organizing and managing the logistics for featured and touring exhibitions, permanent collection presentations, and a wide-range of Artist commissions.
Jillian holds a BA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MA in Art History from the University of Missouri Kansas City.
jillian@themuseumbox.com
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Yianna works as one of The Museum Box’s accountants. She provides integral support to the company with domestic and international tax compliance.
Yianna has over 15 years of experience in providing tax consulting and compliance services to closely held businesses and their owners. She has worked with clients from wide-ranging industries, including the real estate, software, and professional service industries. She also specialized in multistate and international tax compliance.
Yianna is an alumna of Bentley University.
finance@themuseumbox.com
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Tim is a Project Manager at The Museum Box. He works across a variety of projects in Rome, Naples and Venice.
Prior to joining The Museum Box, Tim spent years working in a variety of roles across Rome's art sector, from collaborating with contemporary galleries and independent publishers, to working as the Head of Studio for a prominent Swiss designer and serving as an assistant curator at the American Academy in Rome. In this time, Tim has helped produce a wide range of exhibitions, catalogues, artists' books, and works of art. He is the editor and translator of Sleepless Traveler, a book of Sandro Penna's poetry in translation with illustrations by Louis Fratino.
Tim is a graduate of Harvard University.
tim@themuseumbox.com
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Molly manages relations with lenders and develops exhibitions for The Museum Box. Before joining The Museum Box, she was Associate Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, where she worked for 11 years. As curator, she organized and coordinated multiple exhibitions, headed the museum's provenance initiatives, and researched the permanent collection. Molly's background includes freelance museum content creation, translations, and various positions in institutions in both the United States and Italy such as The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Boston University Art Gallery; The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; and The Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany.
Molly holds a BA in Art History from the University of Virginia and an MA in Art History from Boston University.
molly@themuseumbox.com
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Kimberly is the bookkeeper at The Museum Box. She manages the day-to-day financial operations of the company. She ensures that all financial transactions are recorded, tracked, and reported correctly. She oversees accounting processes and assists in budgeting and forecasting for exhibitions and for the organization. Kimberly specifically handles accounts receivable and accounts payable for The Museum Box.
Kimberly has a BA from Gordon College.
finance@themuseumbox.com
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Maria is a Lender Relations Assistant at The Museum Box. She supports senior staff members and clients by handling various tasks for lenders. Key responsibilities include project support, meeting coordination and travel arrangements.
In addition to her role at The Museum Box she is also currently working towards her Masters degree in History of Art and Architecture with a certificate in Museum Studies at Boston University.
Maria is an alumna of Florida State University.
maria@themuseumbox.com
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Jensen is a Lender Relations & Operations Coordinator at The Museum Box.
Before joining The Museum Box, she interned at the Baltimore Museum of Art in the American Painting and Sculpture Department conducting preliminary research on objects for a reinstallation of the American wing. She continued her time at the Baltimore Museum of Art in the Exhibitions and Program Alignment Department where she supported operations related to maintaining project management software and external exhibition proposals.
Jensen holds a B.A. in Art History from Notre Dame of Maryland University.
jensen@themuseumbox.com
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Christine is a Project Manager for The Museum Box. Christine is a senior industry professional working on complex multi-organization loan exhibitions.
Prior to joining The Museum Box, she spent years organizing and traveling major exhibitions for museums in the US, UK, and Canada. As the former Head of Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, she led and managed an international art program, including Canada’s representation at the Venice Biennale. She has held senior positions in exhibitions and collections management at the Jewish Museum in New York, the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Design Museum, London.
Christine has an MBA from the University of Ottawa and a Masters in Art History from the University of Essex, UK and a Bachelor in Arts from Carleton University.
christine@themuseumbox.com
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Naomi is a Project Manager for The Museum Box. She joined The Museum Box after over 30 years of organizing major domestic and international traveling loan exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She started her museum career as registrar at the Museum of the City of New York and worked in curatorial offices at several museums in the Boston area.
Naomi has an MBA from George Washington University, a masters degree in American Studies from Boston University, and a BA in American Studies from Barnard College.
naomi@themuseumbox.com
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Marta has been an exhibition project manager for more than 15 years.
She began her journey organizing exhibitions in 2008, bringing masterpieces of Roman archeology (The Capitoline Museums, The National Archaeological Museum of Naples and Pompeii excavations) to China’s major museums. For years she managed international projects with a particular focus on Russia, Latin America, China and the United States. She has also led numerous events during the year of cultural exchange between Italy and Russia in 2011 and during the year of cultural exchange between Italy and Latin America in 2015. Throughout her career by working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she became a key player in Italian Museum Diplomacy.
marta@themuseumbox.com
Advisors
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Jeremy is principal at J. Roc Design, a multidisciplinary design practice specializing in architecture that pushes at the boundaries of perception.
Jeremy is currently a Lecturer in architectural design at MIT. He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduating with a Masters of Architecture in 2012, and was awarded the Faculty Design Award for Design Excellence. He also holds a B.A. in Architectural Studies and Sculpture from Brown University, Magna cum Laude, with Honors, and studied for a year at the Architectural Association in London.
He was the 2014 recipient of the Rotch Traveling Fellow, an endowed scholarship which funds one architect to travel and research architecture around the world for eight months, has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a member of the AIA.
Jeremy has worked for multiple award-winning architecture firms, including Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Howeler+Yoon Architecture, IK Studio, and IwamotoScott. He has experience as a designer, builder, digital fabrication specialist, web designer, sculptor, and metalsmith, and works on projects ranging from furniture/product design and graphic design to architectural design and masterplanning.
Jeremy lives in Boston, MA
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Mary Bryce Comstock Curator Of Greek And Roman Art
Phoebe Segal is the Mary Bryce Comstock Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She earned her BA from Brown University (1999) and PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia (2007). She has excavated in Greece, Italy and Cyprus and is co-Chair of the Museums and Exhibitions Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America. Since 2008, she has curated several exhibitions and gallery renovations at the MFA, most recently Early Greek Art (2022). Her latest projects include writing and producing, Figures in Red, an animated short film about the invention of red-figure vase painting technique in Athens circa 525 BCE (with Zedem Media), for which she is writing a companion essay. She is currently researching the Etruscan collection at the MFA.
Phoebe lives in Brookline, MA
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A graduate from Columbia University (East Asian studies) and La Sorbonne (Philosophy), after collaborating as an artistic director and independent producer on numerous projects with creators (Soundwalk, Philippe Starck), cultural institutions (Centre Pompidou, lille3000), brands (Louis Vuitton, Estee Lauder, Chanel) and festivals (Caochangdi PhotoSpring – Arles in Beijing, Nuit Blanche), Victoria Jonathan established in China in 2013, where she taught at Beijing University before joining the French Embassy as Head of Communications for the Culture & Education section. She has directed radio and TV documentaries on the Chinese art scene for French national radio station France Culture, and TV channel Voyage.
With Bérénice, Victoria has been co-director of the photo festival Jimei x Arles (2017-2019), created in China by Les Rencontres d’Arles and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.
They have curated several exhibitions on Chinese contemporary art and photography, both in France and China.
Victoria lives in Paris, France.
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Eugene is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where his work focuses on corporate integrity. His research utilizes data to proactively identify organizational cultures and compliance systems that can effectively prevent, detect, and respond to reputational and regulatory threats. Eugene teaches graduate and executive education courses on corporate misconduct and risk management, and was the recipient of the Charles M. Williams Award for outstanding teaching.
Eugene is a leader in utilizing data analytics to predict, detect, and mitigate issues related to organizational misconduct. He frequently serves as an advisor and consultant to multinational corporations regarding the design of their compliance programs. Drawing on his experience with companies and government agencies, Eugene founded Integrity Lab, which creates integrated, data-driven technology to cultivate organizational integrity and strengthen corporate culture.
Eugene’s contributions have been widely cited by the media including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, NPR, and The Economist. He is also on the editorial board of Harvard Data Science Review.
Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard Business School, Eugene received his PhD and MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and his AM in statistics and AB in economics from Harvard University.
Eugene lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Kristen Gresh is the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA).
She is the curator of Graciela Iturbide’s Mexico and She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, and the author of the exhibitions’ companion publications. Previously, Gresh lived in Paris and Cairo for 15 years where she worked as curator and taught history of photography. Recent publications include contributions to Getting the Picture: The History & Visual Culture of the News (2015), The Photo Diary of John G. Morris (2010), and On Display: Visual Politics, Material Culture, and Public Education (forthcoming). Her Ph.D. dissertation from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales was titled, “The Family of Man: A Critical History of an American Photographic Exhibition,” parts of which have been published in the academic journals Etudes Photographiques and History of Photography
Kristen lives in Somerville, Massachusetts
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An art historian trained at École du Louvre, Bérénice Angremy has lived and worked in China for almost 20 years where she established two pioneer art events on the local art scene: the 798 Dashanzi International Art Festival (DIAF, 2004-2007) with artist Huang Rui, and Cao- changdi PhotoSpring – Arles in Beijing festival (2010-2012) with photographers RongRong and Inri.
She was the Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy in China (2013-2017), co-director of the artistic agency Thinking Hands (2004-2012) and curator of exhibitions such as the Chinese program of the Rencontres d’Arles in 2007, ”Action” (Denmark Louisiana, 2007), ”Dior and the Chinese artists” (UCCA, 2008) and ”Revolutionary Times: Chris Marker” (Star Beijing, 2012). With Victoria, Bérénice has been co-director of the photo festival Jimei x Arles (2017-2019), created in China by Les Rencontres d’Arles and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre.
They have curated several exhibitions on Chinese contemporary art and photography, both in France and China.
Bérénice lives in Paris, France.
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David started working with artists in 2014, when Swiss artist Not Vital asked him to help acquire a castle in the Engadine valley and turn it into a museum. Since then he has worked with a large number of foundations, artists and architects.
Prior to entering the Arts, David founded and owned a healthcare services company in Berlin, Germany. Before that, he was a portfolio manager at London based hedge fund Polygon and an Associate at Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity.
David holds an MA in Law from the University of Oxford and a M.Sc. In Economics and Social Sciences from Sciences-Po in Paris. David speaks German, English, Italian, French, Slovak and Czech.
David lives in Venice, Italy.
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IMAGE CREDITS
Kent Monkman, Wedding at Sodom, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 72” x 120", image courtesy of the artist, McMichael Canadian Art Collection