Climate Change at Home
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Museum Magazine
At King Manor, education about the environment and the historic house go ha…
Trend Alert: Changing Climate Risk
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Museum Magazine
2022 marked a new high in climatic extremes. The US set records for number of tornadoes (29 in March); heat (nearly 1,000 record high temperatures in one week of September alone); and …
Museums & Climate Change: A Global Response
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Alliance Blog
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 …
Wordless Wednesday: Cows Fighting Climate Change
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
#CowFarts #Methane #GlobalWarming #GreenAgriculture Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s …
A New Museum in NYC: Climate Change Museum
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
While I spend most of my time scanning for change taking place in society writ large, rather than trends in museum practice per se, I do keep an eye open for new museums. Why and how …
Historic Houses in the Shifting Landscape of Climate Change
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
In combating climate change, we can look to Indigenous and historic practices for models of sustainable architectural solutions to extreme heat, cold, and humidity. Structures built in …
The Climate Toolkit
This resource was collected from an organization in the nonprofit or museum sector. AAM reviewed and approved this as a resource based on the organization's authority and expertise and …
Worldwide applause for museums and their role in addressing climate change!
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Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
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 …
Museums Are Trying to Fireproof Themselves in the Age of Climate Change
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Facilities & Risk Management
As California suffers through yet another devastating fire season, flames have not just been driving people from their homes and filling the air with smoke, but threatening the state's …
How the Anchorage Museum is Telling the Story of Climate Change
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Alliance Blog
As the world faces the unprecedented in climate crisis and pandemics, museums are more important than ever for facilitating essential human connection and meaning-making. As a result of …
From the President and CEO: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge
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Museum Magazine
AAM’s vision is “a just and sustainable world informed and enriched by thriving museums that contribute to the resiliency and equity of their communities.” I am constantly impressed and …
Putting Social Science to Work in Climate Change Interpretation
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On-Demand Programs
Public engagement efforts on climate change must start with the fundamental recognition that people have different psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting—or not acting—to …