The natural history museum as a site of struggle
Since May of 2016, I have been a researcher with The Natural History Museum, a mobile and pop-up museum that seeks to highlight the socio-political elements of science, climate change, and natural history traditionally excluded from museums. We argue that when reinvisioned as sites of ideological struggle over the meaning of nature and humanity, museums alternatively become possible infrastructures for reclaiming the common. Our political practice involves creating exhibitions, expeditions, tours, and public programming that seek to re-position museums as political actors capable of responding to global climate chaos.
More info:
http://thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/
Kai Bosworth and Steve Lyons. 2019. "Museums in the Climate Emergency." in Janes and Sandell, eds Museum Activism, London: Routledge. More info here: https://www.routledge.com/Museum-Activism/Janes-Sandell/p/book/9780815369974
Not An Alternative, "Institutional liberation" E-flux.
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/77/76215/institutional-liberation/
Not An Alternative, "The National Park Service Goes Rogue." Jacobin.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/donald-trump-bureaucracy-national-park-service-smokey-bear
More info:
http://thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/
Kai Bosworth and Steve Lyons. 2019. "Museums in the Climate Emergency." in Janes and Sandell, eds Museum Activism, London: Routledge. More info here: https://www.routledge.com/Museum-Activism/Janes-Sandell/p/book/9780815369974
Not An Alternative, "Institutional liberation" E-flux.
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/77/76215/institutional-liberation/
Not An Alternative, "The National Park Service Goes Rogue." Jacobin.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/02/donald-trump-bureaucracy-national-park-service-smokey-bear