Sustainability and Ecology in Museum Practice
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About Sustainability in Museums
Why should museums take a stand? How can museums respond to climate emergency?
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Toolkit on Environmental Sustainability in the Museum Practice
This CIMAM toolkit aims to help contemporary art museum professionals to start implementing in their institutions and as individuals, the necessary changes to become carbon neutral.
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2022-25 Sustainability Working Group
The 2023-25 Sustainability and Ecology in Museum Practice working group consists of CIMAM Board members: Suzanne Cotter (Chair), Suhanya Raffel, Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Clara M. Kim, Kitty Scott, Leevi Happala, and Joselina Cruz.
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How Modern and Contemporary Art Museums are Acting to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?
CIMAM is conducting a survey to provide an overview of the status and progress of modern and contemporary art museums and cultural institutions towards achieving the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).
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Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals
This guide is intended to help empower museums (small, large and of any kind, anywhere), museum workers, museum networks and their partners to contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs for short).
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"We can be so much more powerful if we act together, whatever our scale, or focus, or location. There simply is no time to lose"
We spoke with Frances Morris, director of Tate Modern, CIMAM Board Member, and Chair of the CIMAM Sustainability and Ecology in Museum Practice working group which has led this project, to share her vision on the current situation of museums in terms of sustainability.
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CIMAM's workshop on Environmental Sustainability
This workshop provides an opportunity to hear from, and ask questions of, colleagues and allies who are championing new and innovative ways of responding to climate and ecological emergencies.
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Bizot Green Protocol
Museums need to find ways to reconcile the desirability of long-term preservation of collections with the need to reduce energy use.