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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...
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...
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...
Climate change is an existential issue and the public cares deeply about it. Teens like Greta Thunberg are taking to the streets, the seas, and...
The Museum of Plastic is the latest Instagram friendly pop up to open in the United States, following in the footsteps of the Museum of...
The School Strike For Climate is an international movement of students, drawing attention to the lack of action from politicians on the issue of climate...
Becky Menlove Associate Director for Visitor Experience, Natural History Museum of Utah James Allsopp Head of Design, Preloaded Find out what happened when the Natural...
