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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
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.
The voyages of Captain Cook are endlessly fascinating to a wide
audience, and no aspect of them has been more controversial than
Cook's death. This book reprints one of the classic accounts of
this episode, the vivid and lively narrative by one of the voyage
surgeons, David Samwell. This book not only makes Samwell's
"Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook" readily available
for the first time, but presents it with Samwell's previously
unpublished letters relating to Cook's third voyage, and his
poetry. The introductory essays discuss Samwell's contribution to
our understanding of this dramatic period in Pacific and maritime
history, and examine the personality and career of Samwell himself.
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