Rebecca Salminen Witt

Rebecca Salminen Witt is the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer for the Detroit Historical Society which runs the Detroit Historical Museum and the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She has practiced as an environmental attorney and prior to joining the Museum world she was the President and CEO of a Detroit environmental group, The Greening of Detroit. She brought a new environmentally focused lens to the work of the museums in 2017 and has spoken broadly on groundbreaking environmental and museum programs to audiences across the globe.

Rebecca Salminen Witt will be speaking at the Green Museums Summit 2025 :

Accidentally Environmental: Stumbling into sustainability practices

Guardian of the largest collection of artifacts kept in a wood-framed building on the shores of a major river in North America, the Detroit Historical Society has plenty of eye-opening stories marking its journey toward more sustainable museum practices in the face of climate change. Join this session to learn how they improved their bottom line (did well) by committing to sustainability practices (doing good.)