Curating the Future Museums Communities and Climate Change 1st Edition by Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin, Kirsten Wehner ISBN 1138658529 978-1138658523

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ISBN 10: 1138658529
ISBN 13: 978-1138658523
Author:  Jennifer Newell, Libby Robin, Kirsten Wehner 

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.

Curating the Future Museums Communities and Climate Change 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction

The relational museum

Engaging responsive communities

Places of stories and collections

Exhibitions

Climate and culture

Ethics for museums exhibiting climate change

Four trajectories

Part 1: Welcoming new voices: opening museums

Part 2: Reuniting nature and culture

Part 3: Focusing on the future

Part 4: Representing change and uncertainty

In conclusion

Notes

2 Tell them

Part I Welcoming new voices: opening museums

3 The Anthropocene and Environmental Justice

I

II

III

IV

V

Notes

4 Cameo

Notes

5 Talking around Objects

I

II

III

Notes

6 Object in View

Note

7 The Pacific in New York

Global citizens and cultural collections

Reflecting on museum practice

Collections as places

How would my life have been different?

Notes

8 Cameo

Notes

9 “Peoples Who Still Live”

Introduction: living and surviving in the Pacific

Museums and the Pacific colonial legacy

A role for museums

Case study: Waters of Tuvalu

Notes

10 Object in View

Notes

Part II Reinventing nature and culture

11 Towards an Ecological Museology

Mackenzie’s menagerie

Towards the cultural center

New national narratives

Historical particularity and animal agency

Beyond specimen-ness

Towards a climate-changed future

Notes

12 Object in View

Note

13 Food and Water Exhibitions as Lenses on Climate Change

Notes

14 Object in View

Notes

15 Telling Torres Strait History through Turtle

A turtle-shell mask and human-animal histories

Connecting with the past and looking to the future

Notes

16 Four Seasons in One Day

Introduction

New Zealand’s weather and climate

Landfall

A second wave of settlers

Exhibiting the weather

The weather at Te Papa

Throwing caution to the wind

Conclusion

Notes

17 Object in View

Notes

18 The Last Snail

Notes

19 Object in View

Notes

Part III Focusing on the future

20 The Reef in Time

Notes

21 Food Stories for the Future

The Paddock Report

Food Stories

Mobilizing materiality

Notes

22 Shaping Garden Collections for Future Climates

Collecting: the quest to name and know

Re-imagining the future for botanic gardens

Gardening the Antipodes – botanic gardens in Australia and New Zealand

The new acclimatizers

Growing the future

The Anthropocene ark

Notes

23 Object in View

The inventor of the cucumber straightener

The modern cucumber

Notes

24 The Art of the Anthropocene

Introduction

The first stage

The second stage

The third stage

Notes

25 Object in View

Notes

Part IV Representing change and uncertainty

26 Cameo

27 Museum Awakenings

The environment a political issue

Museum crisis

“Are we poisoning nature?”

“Sweden turning sour”

Mission: Climate Earth

Conclusions

Notes

28 Rising Seas

Understanding the oceans on a human scale

The science aquaria: a sea of facts and figures

Visualizing slow violence: affect, fictions and futures

A future life aquatic: constructing an environmental imagination of the sea

Notes

29 Object in View

30 When the Ice Breaks

Introduction

Mediating Arctic climate change

Media events, mediatization and the reading of news

Displayed events

Images and context

A moral story/the moral of the story

Notes

31 Displaying the Anthropocene in and Beyond Museums

A museum for the Anthropocene?

A new philosophy for Welcome to the Anthropocene

Practicalities

Pyramiden, industrial heritage and the new tourism of climate change

Background

Reflections: foregrounding the cultural in the Anthropocene

Notes

32 Dear Matafele Peinam

Bibliography

Exhibitions cited

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