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Environmental Sustainability
What the Garden Tells Us: A new triennial’s first exhibition chronicled man’s evolving relationship with nature.
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2018 edition of Museum magazine. As the number of art museums in the world has steadily risen, so has the number of …
Change is in the air!
PIC-Green In the 2007 Application to form the Professional Interest Committee on Green Museums, John W. Jacobsen wrote, “…over at least the next decade, we have a lot of work to do, and …
Can Artists Do Anything to Prevent Climate Change? Miami Beach Has Recruited One to Find Out
Miami Beach has recruited local artist Misael Soto as an artist in residence, helping the museum envision the future of climate change and rising tides. Soto is well positioned to join …
Designing an AI Voice for the Museum
This is the second of two posts exploring IRIS+, an AI chatbot at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In part one, Daniel Morena, founder and creative technologist at of …
Can Art Help People Feel The Devastation Of Climate Change?
A new museum is potentially opening in New York City, all about climate change. The Climate Museum will put the climate change debate front and center through art for those who attend. …
Museums & Climate Change: A Global Response
At the first International Symposium on Museums & Climate Change*, held April 10 – 13 in Manchester, UK, seventy-five or more attendees gathered to explore how museums can and should …
Art Museums in Puerto Rico Face Long and Expensive Recovery
This article describes the recovery process of museums in Puerto Rico as they deal with the aftermath of hurricane Maria. While many museums are currently open, they also face a daunting …
Sustainability at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival won AAM’s PIC-Green Professional Network 2017 Sustainability Excellence Award for Programming. Here, James Deutsch, Program Curator for the …
When Leaders Won’t Lead: Taking Action on Climate Change
Museums can change the world, especially when they recruit their visitors to take action. When the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site speaks out against mass incarceration, the B.B. …
Wordless Wednesday: Benthic Museology
@museoatlantico #newmuseum #climatechange Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s Pinter…
Future-Oriented Paleontology at the La Brea Tar Pits
One of the things I love best about social media is its power to connect me with strangers. When Jon Christensen tweeted, back in November, about a panel exploring extinction and …
Worldwide applause for museums and their role in addressing climate change!
I often rely on far-flung correspondents to cover events Alliance staff can’t attend. On learning that Sarah Sutton, former chair of the Alliance’s Green Professional Network, and …