PIC Green Network

Establishing museums as leaders in environmental stewardship and sustainability through education, advocacy, and service. This volunteer group is committed to sustaining a network of people who want to advance, learn from and highlight museum greening projects.

The committee holds the philosophy that a museum’s role in the community includes being a conduit for information and building awareness of issues that impact our world today. PIC Green’s focus is to explore and articulate green practices as fundamental underpinnings to all museum missions with a potential triple net effect encompassing economic, social and environmental issues, internally and externally.

PIC Green strives to:

• Cultivate, engage and grow the PIC-Green network to increase organizational impact. 
• Develop signature programs to educate, facilitate, and encourage green practices within museums.
• Position museums as leaders in the larger environmental sustainability discussion.
• Evolve the organizational structure to integrate with AAM increased effectiveness within the association.

Get Involved

This volunteer committee of AAM members has a board and 6 committees dedicated to sharing information about sustainability with museum professionals. It takes a village to make a di­fference. Join us and help make the AAM village and beyond a much greener place! Read descriptions of each committee and see where you fit in and email the committee co-chairs to find out about volunteer opportunities.

Help support our efforts and learn more about sustainability in museums by choosing to be a PIC Green committee member when you join or renew as an AAM member.

Green Resources

For AAM members PIC Green and the Information Center offer green resources related to all aspects of museum operations especially interpretation & education (public programs), facility sustainability, and marketing & public relations.

Mission

PIC Green is a professional interest committee of the American Association of Museums committed to establishing museums as leaders in environmental stewardship and sustainability through education, advocacy, and service.

Vision

PIC Green, a professional interest committee of the American Association of Museums, is a catalyst celebrating and advancing the commitment of the museum community to environmental issues. We aspire to make museums green beacons in their communities through both the experiences they provide to visitors as well as in every aspect of their operations. Through our core values of education, collaboration, research, and communication we provide resources and dialogue to empower museums to lead on this critical issue.