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Environmental and Climate Action Dialogue Guide for Museums, Cultural Centers, and Historic Sites

“Museums and cultural centers have been called upon to provide critical perspectives on present-day social debates, because they provide inclusive space for people to consider multiple perspectives and learn from each other’s stories. Personal and group identity is always in flux, just as culture is always changing with new circumstances and generations. Community museums and cultural centers have the power to help people shape identity in meaningful ways, by drawing on cultural heritage to address contemporary issues.

 

This Guide can help you to discuss environmental and climate issues with your community, utilizing institutional and regional assets, such as people’s diverse cultural values and practices that are friendly to the environment.

 

Use this guide to:

• Create your own dialogue program, and train staff to facilitate.

• Bring your collections to life, using cultural heritage to address  contemporary issues, connecting past and present.

• Understand your community better, connecting local social issues affecting residents to environmental and climate issues.

• Give visitors a meaningful experience that will prompt them to inquire more and even take climate action.”