A documentation of a recent visit to the Tate (who have just declared climate emergency) & the National Maritime Museum. My name is Emily Tunnicliffe & I’m currently on a work placement with the Climate Museum UK. My brief was to look at how museums and artists help people engage with climate change. And how…
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…
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,…
Here’s a draft of a Story of Change for Climate Museum U.K. Read it upwards from the bottom.