The Art of Sustainable Design
This article originally appeared in the July/August 2018 issue of Museum magazine. Museums can use environmental performance to enhance mission and visitor experience. Museums have long held a special place in the hierarchy of our …
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 biennials, triennials, and art fairs. Some survive. Many …
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 many challenges that require creative innovations. …
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 32Bits, described the program, how it operates, and how …
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 respond to climate change on behalf of their …
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 Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, …
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. King Museum fights for childhood health in …
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 de-extinction to be held at the La Brea Tar Pits, I tweeted …
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 principal of Sustainable Museums, recently relocated to …
Futurist Friday: An Anthology of Climate Fiction
Here’s an extra special treat for your Futurist Friday: “Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction” was just released as a free digital download by the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative (ICF) at Arizona …
