Today’s Guest Post is by Sarah Sutton, Principal of Sustainable Museums, a consultancy for cultural organizations pursuing climate action. Over the next few weeks, as we leave 2020 and enter…
![How one museum is working to support the local economy – Fibershed and The Textile Museum of Canada [Case Study]](https://cmcj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/whatisafibershed-600x400.jpg)
Today's Guest Post is by Susan Fohr, a museum educator and maker living in Toronto where she works at The Textile Museum of Canada. The local food movement has transformed…
![Heritage and Sustainability Unite at the Potato House [Case Study]](https://cmcj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/9fb933af6c2045cfab7f5547b392f0b2-600x400.jpg)
Today's Guest Post is by Joe Borsato, Eco-curator and Project Alchemist at the Potato House in Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada The past has many lessons for a sustainable future…
The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. -- Brandon Sanderson, fantasy/science fiction writer Bob Janes, Founder…
![Growing History: The Historic Garden’s Role in Inspiring Behavioural Change [Case Study]](https://cmcj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/image-3-600x400.jpg)
Guest Post by Lauren McCallum, Acting Program Officer at Montgomery's Inn. Montgomery's Inn is one of ten historic sites belonging to Museums and Heritage Services, City of Toronto. Opinions are…
![Historic Site Addresses Sea Level Rise Impacts through Community Partnership – Strawbery Banke Museum [Case Study]](https://cmcj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/puddle-dock04-600x400.jpg)
Guest Post by Rodney Rowland, Director of Special Projects and Facilities, Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA. Strawbery Banke Museum located 400 feet from the banks of the Piscataqua…
From the practical to the philosophical, from the local to the international, from big to small museums of all types, the first six months of the Coalition of Museums for…
Guest Post by Luke Leyh**, current co-chair PIC-Green & Coordinator, Museum Services, United States Holocaust Museum and Sarah Sutton*, past co-chair PIC-Green, Principal, Sustainable Museums The professional landscape is blooming…
![Australia’s Green Museum Project: A pathway towards sustainability for Victorian small museums [Case Study]](https://cmcj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/image002-e1503505311544-600x400.jpg)
Today's Guest Post by Simone Ewenson, Green Museum Project Manager, Museums Australia (Victoria). Five Victorian museums are pioneering small-scale climate change responses, by reducing energy use in heritage buildings and…
![One Person Can Make A Difference – Building the Coastal Connections Temporary Exhibit at the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site [Case Story]](https://cmcj.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/exhibit-panels-credit-joel-baziuk-600x400.jpg)
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…