• Museums as First Responders

    I’m at the We Are Museums conference in Katowice in Poland. The host, the Muzeum Slaskie, has been created out of the site of a disused coal mine. The old buildings now look like chapels, and many of the spaces are underground, lit by light wells. The walls of the auditorium are wood-panelled, bringing to…

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  • Big Green Day

    Climate Museum UK popped up at the Big Green Day, in Telegraph Hill Park, which we also helped organise. It had music (e.g. from the Zero Carbon Band), a clothes and DVD swap, some creative activities with waste, and a lot of stalls of local action groups such as Greenpeace, Nunhead Bring Your Own shop,…

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  • Telegraph Hill pop-up

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    Last weekend was a pop-up over two days in a domestic situation, as part of Telegraph Hill Open Studios. It was a chance to consider how a Climate Museum could work in a context to think about climate action in our ordinary lives. It was also an opportunity to showcase some of the prototype tools.…

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  • We declare emergency

    We, the team behind Climate Museum UK, declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency. This is part of the movement Culture Declares Emergency.  We pledge to support the communities and civic & cultural organisations we work with in tackling this Emergency, and we call on others to explore how they might extend support in similar ways.…

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  • Culture Declares Emergency

    Climate Museum UK is going to be one of those Declaring a Climate and Ecological Emergency on April 3rd, and is involved in forging this movement. This is the invitation… Humanity faces the combined catastrophes of man-made climate change, a mass extinction of vital biodiversity and a degradation of ecosystems health everywhere. This is a…

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  • Swindon pop-up

    On Saturday 16th March, the pop-up Climate Museum UK was squeezed into a single shopping trolley (just some of the kit), and onto an early morning train to Swindon. It was installed in the central foyer of the National Self-Build and Renovation Centre. We were invited there by Louisa Davison who had attended the first…

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