Curating Climate Change: Collecting and Displaying Ecological Crisis in UK Museums

这个由ahrc资助的合作博士伙伴关系项目将通过探索在收藏和画廊中代表这一紧迫主题所采取的策略，对英国博物馆正在采取的不同方法进行重要的洞察。它侧重于策展活动的三个领域：当代收藏，重新诠释历史收藏和展览内容开发。其目的是绘制气候变化策展领域的图表，并在博物馆研究和策展研究领域将这一活动历史化，目前这一活动正获得迫切的动力。由于科学博物馆所关心的藏品类型和它们的机构职责，它们处于探索这些问题的有利地位。因此，本项目侧重于在科学博物馆（广义上包括科学技术博物馆、自然历史博物馆和拥有植物、地质和海洋学藏品的博物馆）中具体展示气候变化的不同方法，并将这些方法与拥有不同类型藏品的博物馆进行比较。其目的是确定在具有科学议程的博物馆中策划气候变化的挑战和现实的独特之处。案例研究将包括科学博物馆和档案联盟内的组织以及学生选择的其他组织。研究问题包括：策展人在收藏、展览和常设画廊中采用什么策略来表现气候变化？在为博物馆观众策划气候变化时，策展人面临哪些挑战？与其他类型的博物馆相比，科学博物馆如何应对气候变化有什么具体之处？策展人如何理解他们在气候变化的公众讨论中所扮演的角色？随着时间的推移，这种角色如何以及为什么发生了变化？该项目将由东安格利亚大学的学者和科学博物馆集团的策展人共同监督。

This AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project will develop significant insight into the different approaches UK museums are taking to curating climate change by exploring the strategies adopted to represent this pressing subject in collections and on gallery. It focuses on three areas of curatorial activity: contemporary collecting, reinterpreting historical collections and content development for exhibitions. The aim is to chart the field of curating climate change and historicise this activity within the fields of museum studies and curatorial studies at a time when this activity is gaining urgent momentum.Science museums are well placed to explore these issues due to the types of collections in their care and their institutional remit. This project therefore focuses on different approaches to curating climate change in science museums specifically, which are broadly construed to include science and technology museums, natural history museums and museums with botanical, geological and oceanographic collections, as well as comparing these approaches to museums with different types of collections. The aim is to establish what is unique about the challenge and reality of curating climate change in museums with a science agenda. Case studies will include organisations within the Science Museums and Archives Consortium as well as others selected by the student.Research questions include:What strategies are curators using to represent climate change in collections, exhibitions and in permanent galleries?What are the challenges facing curators when curating climate change for museum audiences?What is specific about how science museums curate climate change when compared to other types of museums?How do curators understand their role in relation to wider public discourse on climate change and how and why has this changed over time?The project will be co-supervised by academics at University of East Anglia and curators at the Science Museum Group.