Mobilising Museums for Climate Action: Tools, frameworks and opportunities to accelerate climate action in and with museums

Henry McGhie

2021年11月 · Museums for Climate Action

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Climate action requires deep and rapid transformations in society. However, institutions and sectors – including museums – are often unprepared for these transformations. Action is woefully insufficient to address the challenge.

This Toolbox brings together information on climate change policy, sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and a number of approaches that museums can draw on to inform their activities. The Toolbox explores some of the ideas that were generated through the project Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, which included a design competition, exhibition, website and book.

The Toolbox consists of a variety of approaches that you can pick and choose from, depending on your context, challenges, and aspirations. It is not intended to be the last word on the subject, or to be read from start to finish as a single tool: think of it as a go-to manual.

Climate change is complex, and the challenges, and appropriate responses, vary from place to place, and community to community. That is why this collection is a Toolbox, rather than a tool or a toolkit.

The Toolbox has been formatted to be used on a computer screen. Hyperlinks are embedded in this file, to access further information. If you do plan to print this document, please think of the environment, print only what you need, and print double-sided.

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Henry McGhie is founder of Curating Tomorrow, a UK-based consultancy supporting museums and their partners to contribute to sustainable development agendas. He has a background as an ecologist, museum curator and senior manager. He established Curating Tomorrow in 2019 to support museums and their partners to accelerate and enhance their contribution to sustainable development agendas, including the SDGs, climate action, biodiversity conservation and human rights. He is a member of the International Council of Museums Sustainability Working Group and IUCN Commission on Education and Communication. He is a member of the Reimagining Museums for Climate Action research project team and a co-curator, with Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling, of the Reimagining Museums for Climate Action exhibition.

This Toolbox has been developed as an output of the project Reimagining Museums for Climate Action, which was developed as the AHRC Heritage Priority Area’s contribution to the UK’s time as host of COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference. The project is co-led by Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling.