Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9781138658523 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 298 str.

Jennifer Newell;Libby Robin;Kirsten Wehner

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Curating Connections in a Climate Changed World  2. Poem: "Tell Them"  Part 1: Welcoming New Voices: Opening museums  3. Rob Nixon, The Anthropocene and Social Justice  4. Cameo: Museums Connecting  5. Talking Around Objects: Stories for a Climate Changed world  6. Object in view: Jaki-ed mat, Marshall Islands  7. The Pacific in New York: Managing Objects and Cultural Heritage Partnerships in Times of Global Change  8. Cameo: Connie Hart’s Basket  9. Peoples who Still Live: The Role of Museums in addressing Climate Change in the Pacific  10. Object in view: Taking a Bite Out of Lost Knowledge: Sharks’ Teeth, Extinction, and the Value of Preemptive Collections  Part 2: Reuniting Nature and Culture  11. Towards an Ecological Museology: Responding to the animal-objects of the Australian Institute of Anatomy collection   12. Object in view: Harry Clarke’s high wheeler bicycle  13. Food and Water Exhibitions: Lenses on Climate Change  14. Object in view: The Stump-Jump Plough: Reframing a National Icon  15. Telling Torres Strait History through Turtle   16. Four Seasons in One Day: Weather, Culture and the Museum  17. Object in view: Nelson the Newfoundland’s Dog Collar  18. The Last Snail: Loss, hope and care for the future  19. Object in view: Hiding in plain sight: Lessons from the Olinguito  Part 3: Focusing on the Future  20. The Reef in Time: The prophecy of Charlie Veron’s living collections  21. Food Stories for the Future  22. Shaping Garden Collections for Future Climates  23. Object in view: A Past Future for the Cucumber  24. The Art of the Anthropocene  25. Object in view: The Canary Project: Photographs and Fossils  Part 4: Representing Change and Uncertainty  26. Cameo: The Vulnerable Volvo  27. Museum Awakenings: Responses to Environmental Change at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, 1965–2005  28. Rising Seas: Facts, Fictions and Aquaria  29. Object in view: The Model of Flooded New York  30. When the Ice Breaks: The Arctic in the Media  31. Displaying the Anthropocene in and beyond Museums  32. Poem: Dear Matafele Peinem

O autorze

Jennifer Newell is the curator of Pacific Ethnography at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. She teaches Museum Anthropology at Columbia University, USA, and convenes the Museums and Climate Change Network. She has partnerships with museums in the Pacific, including in Samoa and Fiji, and is a former curator at the British Museum. Libby Robin works across the university and museum sectors in Australia, Sweden and Germany. She is Professor of Environment and Society at the Australian National University, research affiliate at the National Museum of Australia, affiliated professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden,and Board Member, Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Munich, Germany. Kirsten Wehner is Head Curator of the People and the Environment program at the National Museum of Australia. She is a member of the Humanities for the Environment Australia-Pacific Observatory and a professional associate of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra, Australia.