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Curating the future: museums, communities and climate change
Pacific Ethnography at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Philosophy and History, History of Science, Technology and Environment. Australian National University, National Museum of Australia, Australia.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5202-9185
National Museum of Australia, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra, Australia.
2016 (English)Book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change. It explores the power of real objects and collections to stir hearts and minds, to engage communities affected by change. Museums work through exhibitions, events, and specific collection projects to reach different communities in different ways. The book emphasises the moral responsibilities of museums to address climate change, not just by communicating science but also by enabling people already affected by changes to find their own ways of living with global warming. There are museums of natural history, of art and of social history. The focus of this book is the museum communities, like those in the Pacific, who have to find new ways to express their culture in a new place. The book considers how collections in museums might help future generations stay in touch with their culture, even where they have left their place. It asks what should the people of the present be collecting for museums in a climate-changed future? The book is rich with practical museum experience and detailed projects, as well as critical and philosophical analyses about where a museum can intervene to speak to this great conundrum of our times. Curating the Future is essential reading for all those working in museums and grappling with how to talk about climate change. It also has academic applications in courses of museology and museum studies, cultural studies, heritage studies, digital humanities, design, anthropology, and environmental humanities.

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Informa UK Limited , 2016.
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-350407DOI: 10.4324/9781315620770Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85160477431ISBN: 9781317217961 (print)ISBN: 9781138658516 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-350407DiVA, id: diva2:1883997
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