About Museum Fix
Who We Are
The people behind Museum Fix are trained museum, history, and cultural heritage professionals with backgrounds in museum administration, collections care and management, exhibition research and design, interpretation, public programs, and more. We live and breathe our commitment to protecting and sharing our collective cultural heritage and helping others do the same. We love small museums and we love seeing them thrive!
We believe in an inclusive, progressive museum practice. Museum Fix is women owned and powered!
Where We Go
Our staff are based out of the San Francisco Bay Area.
We are easily available for on-site support locally, but we are happy to travel, too!
Most of our services can also be facilitated remotely if travel is not possible. The Future is here, y’all, and we L-O-V-E it!
Meet Our Team
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Iliana has spent her professional career dedicated to sparking curiosity and growth within museums. She has several years of experience working with small museums, especially historic house museums. Her experience includes museum administration and board relations, collections care and management, historic interpretation, and program development. She has a special place in her heart for historic house museums.
Iliana holds a master’s in Museum Studies, a bachelor’s in History, and a post-graduate Library Sciences certificate.
In her spare time she enjoys reading as much as possible and jumping head first into obscure research rabbit holes.
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Collections care and management has been at the forefront of Joanne’s working life. During her 15+ years as an archaeologist, she participated in all aspects of collections management, including creating object databases; conducting inventories and historical and object-based research; and cleaning, labeling, and rehousing objects. In 2019, she decided to transition from archaeology to museum studies, and she now holds a Master’s Degree in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University.
Since changing careers, Joanne has worked with historical sites throughout the Bay Area, including the Camron-Stanford House, the U.S.S. Hornet Sea, Air, and Space Museum, and the Oakland Aviation Museum, where she manages their collections, library, and archives.
In her spare time, Joanne enjoys travel, visiting historic buildings and archaeological sites, mid-century modern style, baking, wine, and cheese, and hopes to one day open a museum that encompasses all of this.
