Karina Wizevich
Karina has worked in the museum field for over 25 years, both in-house and as a consultant. She understands all angles of the museum-visitor relationship -- she’s developed programs and exhibits and signage and marketing and museum architecture, and she’s evaluated them all too.
She can help you think through your ideas, or your existing products -- and then evaluate them with visitors!
Karina is the Assistant Program Director and Senior Lecturer in the Johns Hopkins University Museum Studies program, where she teaches evaluation classes and museum architecture. She loves to collaborate with real museum clients in her classes -- bridging the gap between theory and practice and bringing the energy of graduate students to bear on real museum questions.
Karina was a Fulbright scholar in New Zealand and worked with a variety of museums, including the Museum of New Zealand. She has worked in-house at Liberty Science Center (NJ), the History Center in Tompkins County (NY), and the Museum of the Earth (NY).
She holds a Ph.D. from Victoria University (New Zealand) in Architecture/Museum Studies and an M.S. from Cornell University in Design and Environmental Analysis, and her passion lies at the intersection of museum architecture and creating and evaluating the visitor experience.
When not visiting or working with museums you can find her making elaborate coffee drinks, hiking, reading, watching Fellini films and playing with two rescue cats who are sure to make a Zoom appearance during a project meeting!
Liya Wizevich
Liya holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in History and Russian & East European Studies. She also graduated with an MPhil from the University of Cambridge in Modern European History where her dissertation research focused on the museum and exhibition experience in the Soviet Union. She looked at visitorship, architecture, exhibit design, ideology, and the visitor experience as related to cultural and ethnographic displays of diversity.
While at Cambridge she worked in the Jesus College archives on digitizing college records. She has also been involved with Connecticut historical sites including the Noah Webster House Museum and West Hartford Historical Society.
As a museum consultant, she specializes in evaluation and marketing projects, digitization, and social media growth, with a particular interest in historical and cultural sites.
