Tina Quealy has been named the brand new chief government officer of Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum in Milwaukee.
Quealy replaces Brian King, who introduced earlier this 12 months that he would step down as CEO of Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum as soon as a brand new CEO was in place.
Quealy has just lately served as government director for the Milwaukee-based Burke Basis since 2017. She additionally served as affiliate director of the Kohler Heart for Entrepreneurship & Adjunct College at Marquette College from 2010 to 2013.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Tina to our management staff, and look ahead to having her advance the museum’s present operations and information the transition to our new, everlasting dwelling,” stated Laura Orr, Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum board chair. “Tina will proceed to lift the profile of the Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum throughout the neighborhood, whereas increasing on our mission to encourage all kids to marvel and discover their world via play and modern, hands-on studying experiences.”
“It’s a terrific privilege to be chosen by the board of administrators to guide the Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum,” stated Quealy. “I’m enthusiastic about the way forward for the museum, and the chance to construct a transformational area for younger individuals and households throughout southeastern Wisconsin. My prime precedence is constructing a brand new, inclusive, accessible museum for households as a useful resource for his or her little one’s schooling, enrichment and progress.”
Quealy takes over the management place of Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum because the establishment is in search of a brand new dwelling. The group introduced earlier this 12 months that it was in search of a brand new location and that it had retained Colliers Worldwide to help within the search. Betty Brinn has been situated on the O’Donnell Park advanced in downtown Milwaukee for 27 years. Museum leaders have beforehand stated the area is simply too small for its wants.
In 2020, the Milwaukee Public Museum and Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum introduced plans to co-locate in a brand new facility. The plans referred to as for Betty Brinn to occupy 33,000 sq. toes particularly designed for the kids’s museum throughout the deliberate new Milwaukee Public Museum. Final 12 months, citing adjustments in its funds, Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum dropped out of these plans and Milwaukee Public Museum moved ahead with plans for its new facility.
Further data on the positioning choice course of might be obtainable within the coming weeks, Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum stated.
Betty Brinn Youngsters’s Museum stated in the present day that it had 91,480 friends in the course of the first half of the 12 months, a 76% improve from the primary half of 2022. It had file attendance in the course of the first quarter of the 12 months.
