Charlie Walter Director

Charlie Walter is Director of Baylor University’s Mayborn Museum Complex. With over 30 years of museum experience, Walter has also held positions as Chief Operating Officer of The DoSeum, formerly the San Antonio Children’s Museum, Director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and as Senior Vice President of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. Walter has a BS degree from Texas A&M University in Wildlife and Fisheries Science, with an emphasis in Museum Science, and an MBA from the University of North Texas. Walter has held numerous leadership positions in the museum field, and is currently on the Boards of the Texas Association of Museums, The Museum Association of Waco, and the Waco Mammoth Foundation. He is also an American Alliance of Museums Accreditation Visiting Committee member. Walter served as Principle Investigator or a Senior Personnel for The National Science Foundation funded projects: CSI – Crime Science and Inquiry; The Texas Network for Exhibit-based Teaching and Learning; and Whodunit? The Science of Solving Crime. He was selected as a Noyce Leadership Fellow in 2010.