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

这个由AHRC资助的合作博士伙伴项目将通过探索在收藏品和画廊中表现这一紧迫主题的策略，深入了解英国博物馆正在采取的不同方法来策划气候变化。它侧重于策展活动的三个领域：当代收藏、重新解释历史收藏和为展览开发内容。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内将这一活动载入史册，而这一活动正获得紧迫的势头。科学博物馆由于其保管的藏品类型和机构职权范围，处于探索这些问题的有利地位。因此，该项目侧重于科学博物馆管理气候变化的不同方法，这些博物馆被广泛地解释为包括科学技术博物馆、自然历史博物馆和拥有植物、地质和海洋收藏品的博物馆，并将这些方法与拥有不同类型收藏品的博物馆进行比较。其目的是确定在博物馆中用科学议程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馆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、展览和永久画廊中展示气候变化的策略是什么？策展人在为博物馆观众策划气候变化时面临哪些挑战？与其他类型的博物馆相比，科技馆如何策划气候变化？策展人如何理解他们在更广泛的公众讨论气候变化中的角色，以及这种变化是如何和为什么随着时间的推移而发生变化的？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.