Climate Museum UK is very excited to be a recipient of the first Activist Museum Award, along with the International Slavery Museum and Museum as Muck. As part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG), the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester launched the Activist
This is an invitation to help us with our formative research into Climate Emotions and Coping Strategies. A key aim of our activities is to enable conversations about the Climate & Ecological Emergency, and to develop better strategies for coping. We don’t aim to convert people to a particular point of view or solution, but
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,
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.
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
Climate Museum UK popped up in a small way as part of a ClimateKeys concert – which was music by LaymanHuman (aka Stuart Frobisher) and the choir of St Mary Magdalene school, at the school in Little Venice. It was an evening concert for parents, children and public, at the end of the school’s Climate