Part of a series of reviews of exhibitions and projects. Waters Rising, Perth Museum (November 2024-March 2025) By Clemence Aycard Perth Museum (Scotland) reopened with a bang in 2024 after years of refurbishment. Its first exhibition, Unicorn, won a Museum Change Lives Award from the Museum Association for its social impact in collaborating with community
By Dorry Fox The Museums Association’s (MA) conference, held in Edinburgh in November 2022, was an informative and thought-provoking event that focused on the critical role that museums can play in addressing some of the most urgent challenges of today. Structured around the call to Make Change Happen, the programme explored the interconnected issues of
Lusto is the Finnish word for an annual ring of a tree, and it is the name for the Finnish Forest Museum. It’s a place to explore the Finnish forest as it grows over time, and the ways its use has changed over time. Now, Lusto is changing, to keep up with the times. The
This is the poster for the Climate Talks exhibition. You can download this and use the blurb below to publicise it, or just use the Facebook event (link below). Climate Talks: Art and playful ways to talk about the Climate Emergency 2-6 October, 12-6 (closes at 4pm on Sunday 6th) ONCA in Brighton Explore art
This is the short talk I gave at the We Are Museums conference. I’ve added things I would have said if I’d had time. It was part of a panel about Museums as Green Revolution Leaders. The environment is not an issue, it’s our living world and everything we are interdependent with. We have to
A planned strand of Climate Museum UK is to run tours of museums or open heritage sites, adding (more, or more pertinent) climate and biosphere content to their stories. These tours might be in collaboration with the museum, or more independent and paid for by those on the tour. I tried out a possible format