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One Person Can Make A Difference – Building the Coastal Connections Temporary Exhibit at the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site [Case Story]
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One Person Can Make A Difference – Building the Coastal Connections Temporary Exhibit at the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site [Case Story]

This week’s Guest Post is by Brooke Lees, Curator, Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site, Richmond, B.C. Brooke shares the story of how an historic site can mount a meaningful exhibit…

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June 19, 2017
Meeting the LEED Gold Standard – Markham Museum Collections Building [Case Study]
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Meeting the LEED Gold Standard – Markham Museum Collections Building [Case Study]

*Guest Post by Cathy Molloy, Director of Markham Museum, and an Ontario Museum Association Board member. Completed in 2011, the Markham Museum Collections Building was built as an exhibition hall…

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June 14, 2017
Embracing Change: Museums and Activism
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Embracing Change: Museums and Activism

Guest Post by Naomi Grattan. Naomi teaches museum management for the University of Calgary and the Alberta Museums Association. The concept of activist museums emerged as one of the strongest themes…

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June 6, 2017
Saskatchewan’s Ecomuseums, Planetary Wellbeing, and Climate Justice – A Symposium Report
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Saskatchewan’s Ecomuseums, Planetary Wellbeing, and Climate Justice – A Symposium Report

Guest post by Douglas Worts, a culture & sustainability specialist with WorldViews Consulting, in Toronto, Canada. In the late 1960s, two innovators in France’s cultural world devised a novel concept…

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May 30, 2017
Linking Cultural Museums & Climate Justice at the AAM Conference
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Linking Cultural Museums & Climate Justice at the AAM Conference

Guest Post by Julieanne Fontana, Public Humanities Master’s Program at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA* The floodwaters from the second (almost) 100-year flood event in the past 16…

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May 23, 2017
Art & Sustainable Energy at the Woodstock Art Gallery [Case Study]
Observations from the Glass House, The Woodstock Art Gallery
Art Galleries / Climate Change

Art & Sustainable Energy at the Woodstock Art Gallery [Case Study]

Today's Guest Post is by Roberta Grosland, Head of Collections, Woodstock Art Gallery. The Art of Sustainable Energy really started in 2011 when the Woodstock Art Gallery moved into our new…

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May 16, 2017
How Can My Museum Champion Climate Justice? Step 1 – Develop an Advocacy Policy
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Climate Change / Museum Workers / Museums

How Can My Museum Champion Climate Justice? Step 1 – Develop an Advocacy Policy

Robert Janes told us in an earlier post about three simple steps that museums might take to begin to embrace issues like climate change: Tell stories and educate – Museums…

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May 10, 2017
What’s Next for the Coalition? Capitalizing on Momentum to Create Action
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What’s Next for the Coalition? Capitalizing on Momentum to Create Action

Guest Post by Meaghan Patterson, Executive Director/CEO, Alberta Museums Association* Questions about climate justice abound both for the Coalition and all museum professionals, and will fuel the work of our…

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May 3, 2017
Agentic Professionals: How individual museum workers can champion climate justice
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Agentic Professionals: How individual museum workers can champion climate justice

Guest Post by Joy Davis, PhD CAHP.  Joy is a member of the Advisory Group of the Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice. When Coalition organizers first met in 2017,…

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April 26, 2017
The Elephant in the Room – Museums Won’t Risk Doing Anything That Might Alienate Their Audience
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The Elephant in the Room – Museums Won’t Risk Doing Anything That Might Alienate Their Audience

In this guest post, Robert R. Janes, Founder and Co-Chair of the Coalition, writes more about climate change and museums and the founding of the Coalition of Museums for Climate…

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April 19, 2017
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