Most science centres and museums are dynamic institutions who are continuously changing to optimize their space. Change management is an extremely relevant challenge throughout this continuing process. Some changes are easy to manage but very often changes are disruptive to the organization, the staff and the community. Even disruptive changes can be opportunities if they are handled well. In this intensive session, six leaders from science centres and museums in North America and Europe who completed the Noyce Leadership Programme in 2011 will tell their own stories of institutional change. Each story will be brief and will end with a challenging question to be discussed in small groups.