D.H.office provides strategic, operational and financial consulting to museums, private foundations, and other actors across the arts and culture fields. We uniquely pair experience in business consulting and investment management with knowledge of the cultural non-profit sector and a sensitivity to curatorial and artistic prerogatives. With our experienced in-house team and large expert network, we craft appropriate solutions for projects of all scale and scope.
Clients include
TBA21–Academy, Madrid
Tarasp Castle, Tarasp
Museo Ebraico di Venezia, Venice
Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice
Rothschild Foundation, London
We work with clients to define their institutional goals, matching their ambitions to their available resources, and help them establish governance structures, financial planning, development strategies, and budgets to ensure they realise their missions while maintaining their long-term financial health.
We advise on operations strategies to ensure institutional efficiency, analysing budgets, determining staffing requirements and identifying outsourcing opportunities when appropriate.
Offering operational and financial analysis to more mature institutions, we develop novel strategies with them to refocus and reorient their resources.
Using our familiarity of the cultural landscape, understanding of audiences and knowledge of museum operations, we help clients refine their curatorial and cultural points of view, as well as their approach to public programming and exhibitions. To ensure institutional goals are aligned with economic feasibility, we further provide cost-based analyses of programming to assess impact and reach.
Our specialists advise institutions on developing educational programming to engage young audiences, as well as strategies for accommodating visitors with disabilities and encouraging the engagement of underrepresented groups.
We offer market and audience analysis and provide full-service communications strategies in order to identify and expand audiences for institutions and increase visitors.
Our full-service approach extends to physical assets, overseeing the search and acquisition of new properties as well as building analysis of existing ones. We also manage the construction and renovation of properties to meet the needs of clients and their audiences.
Working with municipalities and public bodies, as well as corporate clients, we advise on the creation of public art programs, matching appropriate curators, artists, and projects with the given resources and aims.
Mediating between municipalities looking to develop their cultural spheres and museums seeking to expand their reach, we help match both parties in order to create satellite institutions around the world.