The Natural History Museum in London has funded 12 regional museums and cultural partners across the UK to run climate action events this year.
Through the initiative, the museum is giving out grants ranging from £2,500 to £10,000, as well as resources including Fixing Our Broken Planet gallery content.
Tom Bevan, head of national programmes at the museum, said: “We’re proud to support the fantastic work our partners are doing to empower communities to connect with issues facing the natural world.
“Across the country, we interact with nature in different ways. This programme is perfectly placed to amplify stories from different communities and drive meaningful action for a future where people and planet thrive.”
Inspiring climate action
Four of the 12 organisations will deliver activity as part of the Natural History Museum’s free youth climate programme, Fixing Our Broken Planet: Generation Hope.
These are:
Climate Museum UK / Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, offering workshops with secondary schools
Global Diversity Foundation in Llandysul, providing workshops, discussions and other sessions to young farmers and migrant and diasporic communities in Wales.
Metronomes Steel Orchestra in London, using instrument and music-making to tell the story of climate change in the Caribbean.
World Museum in Liverpool, offering workshops and events focusing on the planetary emergency and local environmental issues.
Other museums and cultural venues partnering with the Natural History Museum are the Cromarty Courthouse Museum and Hereford Museum & Art Gallery. Both will offer climate exhibitions.
Exhibitions, festivals and talks
The National Coal Mining Museum for England in Wakefield is putting on a festival to encourage guests to take climate action.
The Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum is co-curating an exhibition to explore how the local area will be impacted by the planetary emergency.
The Creswell Crags archaeological site in Worksop will offer a workshop series and an exhibition, while the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery will work with local secondary schools.
The Manchester Museum is hosting a learning programme exploring environmental justice, and Scotland’s Shetland Amenity Trust is providing a junior rangers programme to connect young people with their surrounding environment.
Earlier this month, the Natural History Museum announced it will open a new gallery called Fixing Our Broken Planet on 3 April.
The free space will display cutting-edge research and collection items to explore the threats to, and solutions for, the planet.
Images courtesy of Natural History Museum and Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
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