Reports & Strategic Plan

Executive Summary:

This draft five-year Strategic Plan charts the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History’s path forward by moving our educational programs, exhibits, and events toward a new mission that strengthens our emphasis on cultural history and community building as an integral part of our core focus of caring for our natural world. Along with a new mission is a new vision statement that embraces the future of our Museum as an inclusive, interactive space both inside and outside of our physical walls where we support conservation, scientific literacy, co-curation, and deep learning.

The plan centers on six forward-looking goals that focus on and reconceive

1. The exhibits, building, and garden

2. Science-based education

3. Our expanding partnership role in the communities of Monterey County,

4. The collections

5. Organizational health, and

6. Our financial sustainability. Nested under each goal are objectives, strategies, and specific, time-bound tactics that operationalize each component of the plan.