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Director
Arnhild Buckhurst, Director of Operations, Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Arnhild has been with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum since 2004. Her position oversees construction and maintenance of all Museum properties and program spaces, working in close cooperation with in-house staff and outside design consultants. Her most recent project was the construction of a new Visitor Center and Museum Shop in a renovated 1888 tenement building. She is also responsible for many of the Museum’s HR programs, including office handbooks and manuals as well as the ERRP.
She has worked in the design industry her entire professional career, starting as secretary/office manager in a small architectural office in Norway, and later working for architects and designers in Cambridge, MA, San Francisco and London. In New York, she worked for Davis Brody Associates and then joined Perkins Eastman Architects as a senior associate in the role of office manager for 12 years . She has been an SDA member since the early 90’s. She chaired the Roundtable Committee from 1999 through 2003 and helped plan the NY Eastern Regional Conference in 2002 In 2004 and 2005 she served on the BoD as Recording Secretary. Arnhild is a contributor to SkyLines, and is an active member of the Canstruction Committee. She served as Recording Secretary on the BoD from 2010-2011.