Osama Elemary is a Museum Strategy Consultant of Egyptian origin, based between Vancouver, Calgary, and Riyadh, with sixteen years of experience across Saudi Arabia, Canada, and the Arab world.
Osama works with Canadian and Western cultural institutions on museum strategy, heritage interpretation, exhibit content development, and visitor experience design. The work ranges from full interpretive planning to focused content review, always grounded in what an institution can actually deliver and sustain.
Much of Osama's published writing in Canada addresses migration, belonging, and how cultural institutions reflect the identity of the cities and provinces they serve. These are not abstract positions. They are drawn from published columns in the Calgary Herald, the Vancouver Sun, and the Globe and Mail, each listed below.
Osama's bilingual, bicultural background positions him to help Western institutions navigate meaningful engagement with Gulf museums and heritage bodies, from traveling exhibitions and twinning arrangements to the practical protocols that make cross-cultural partnerships work in practice rather than only on paper.
Direct answers on who has the right to tell a community's story, museums' obligations to Indigenous communities, and how newcomer communities are reflected in Canadian cultural institutions.
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