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A respected and recognised figure in the museum world, Jake Barton has built a reputation for creating ground-breaking museums and public spaces at his experience...
As a member of the curation team at Stapferhaus in Lenzburg, Lisa Gnirss has been heavily involved in her museum’s efforts to engage visitors in...
As a former Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution and co-founder of the Museum of the United Nations – UN...
MuseumNext invited the Design Museum’s Head of Exhibitions and Environmental Impact Lead, Elise Foster Vander Elst, and Alexie Sommer of the URGE Collective to share...
As museums and galleries around the globe place more emphasis on sustainability and green initiatives, their shops have a responsibility to reflect those same changing...
As Canada’s second largest science centre and a global leader in science communication, Science North has an important role to play in driving environmental sustainability....
Today sees the launch of The Wild Escape, a new collaboration between 500 UK museums and artists designed to inspire hundreds of thousands of primary...
Miraikan, the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, ranks sustainability as one of its most important themes to guide activity and outreach programmes. This...
The day I took those Friends of the Earth leaflets into school, filled with concern over pollution and environmental destruction, is still etched on my...
Museums are increasingly aware of the role they have to play in tackling the climate emergency, but the sector has a large carbon footprint with museums...
Maintaining and looking after museum exhibitions can have a measurable effect on an institution’s environmental impact. With one eye on the future and an appreciation...
It’s no longer enough for museums to simply serve as monuments to preservation — they must now focus on conservation, as well. As climate change...
To address the urgency of our climate crisis, exhibitions highlighting destructive environmental actions –particularly ocean plastic consumption – have become increasingly popular. In an effort...
The London Museum of Water and Steam has taken a creative approach to sustainability. Their aim is to address the climate emergency by creating a...
In 2015 the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals – as a roadmap for the sustainable development of all people and our planet. In...
The Gallery of Ecological Art (formerly China gallery) at the British Museum of Decolonised Nature. Image courtesy John Zhang and Studio JZ, Author provided Colin...
In 2000, the United Nations developed eight humanitarian goals known as the MDGs, or millennium development goals. Communities, organisations and institutions took up their share...
The health of our planet is one of the defining issues of the age, and cultural institutions have their own part to play. The drive...
The Design Museum in Kensington has launched a virtual experience that it hopes will bring the consequences of extreme climate change to Londoners and other...
For Those Who Are to Come is an exhibition to be presented at COP26 that will show the human side of the Amazon and also...
Filmed at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in September 2020 Jim Richardson: So welcome back to MuseumNext Disrupt. Today, I’m at the Horniman Museum Gardens...
The Prado Museum in Madrid has joined forces with the best-known conservation group on the planet, the WWF, to raise awareness about the negative impacts...
Activists who want to highlight the issue of climate change have taken their own version of the famous Trojan Horse to the British Museum. The...
Some of the best-known natural history museums and similar institutions in Australia have called on the government to take more action in the country in...
The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London announced today a Manifesto outlining its platform for action and the steps it will take to mitigate against...
