OTTAWA, ONTARIO / AGILITYPR.NEWS / August 12, 2021 / MEDIA RELEASE

OTTAWA MUSEUM NETWOK WELCOMES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Ottawa, August 12, 2021—The Board of Directors of the Ottawa Museum Network (OMN) is pleased to announce Sara MacKenzie as its new Executive Director. 

Ms. MacKenzie comes to the organization with over 23 years’ experience in the federal public service, most recently as Director General of Strategic Communications for Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. She has an education in Canadian history and grew up in the Ottawa Valley where she continues to serve on several boards of local cultural and heritage organizations.

“The OMN Board of Directors is excited to welcome Sara to this role,” said Christine McGuire, Chair of the Board of Directors. “Her extensive background in strategic communications, media relations, marketing and digital engagement —combined with her volunteer work and education — will help set the OMN on a renewed path as community museums grapple with the impact of the pandemic, work to engage the public, deliver new programming and reopen safely,” continued Ms. McGuire, who is also the Executive Director of the Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum.

About the Ottawa Museum Network

The OMN was created in 2007 as a result of the City of Ottawa’s Museum Sustainability Plan. It plays a vital leadership role in promoting the community museum sector in Ottawa and helping to sustain it for the benefit of residents and visitors to Ottawa. The network represents eleven local community and City of Ottawa museums, including:

• Billings Estate
• Bytown Museum
• Cumberland Heritage Village Museum
• Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum
• Fairfields Heritage House
• Goulbourn Museum
• Nepean Museum
• Osgoode Township Museum
• Pinhey’s Point Historic Site
• Muséoparc Vanier
• Watson’s Mill

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For more information:

Tracie Taylor Labonté

Ottawa Museum Network

marketing@omn-rmo.ca

(613) 234-1999 x 102