The case studies can be downloaded from MDN website.
Seeds for Action: Festival for the Future
West Cheshire Museums – A sustainability festival including craft fairs, outdoor yoga, open mic nights, ‘climate ceilidhs’, clothes swaps, litter picks, pub quizzes, eco-storytelling, and a local circus troupe. Accompanied by a travelling Augmented Reality exhibition about plastic pollution.
Seeds for Action: A Sky Garden and More…
Warrington Museum & Art Gallery – Creating a Sky Garden and rolling out Carbon Literacy Training.
Seeds for Action: Dippy on Tour Exhibition
Touchstones Rochdale – The Dippy on Tour exhibition, an installation of over 1000 knitted bees, and the start of climate action work.
Seeds for Action: A Space To Be Project
Scarborough Museums & Galleries – A Space to Be – a community space with sustainability at its heart, including activities exploring nature, supporting discussion and debate.
Seeds for Action: Greening the Museum
REME Museum – Greening the Museum through creating a wildflower garden and ‘Dig for Victory’ vegetable patch.
Seeds for Action: The Flood Tapestry Project
Quaker Tapestry Museum – The Flood Tapestry Project, creating a way for the people to share their experience of the Storm Desmond flooding, and to celebrate community resilience.
Seeds for Action: Improving our Carbon Footprint
National Football Museum (NFM) – One of the first museums in the country to officially become a Carbon Literacy Organisation. NFM is aiming to reduce their direct carbon emissions by 50% by 2025 through staff training, visitor engagement and new lighting.
Seeds for Action: Carbon Literacy Training and Actions
Judges’ Lodgings Museum – Rolling out Carbon Literacy Training and establishing a Green Team. Introducing a hotbin, LED lighting and bike stands.
Seeds for Action: Interactive Garden Trail
Elizabeth Gaskell’s House – Interactive Garden Trail using QR codes to provide fun facts and information on plants and wildlife, and on ways to reduce carbon emissions.
Seeds for Action: Eco-Sewing Circle
Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre – An Eco-Sewing Circle of community volunteers making quilted covers as an alternative to bubble wrap for protecting plinth lids in storage.
Seeds for Action: Water of Life Exhibition
Bolton Library & Museum Service – Water of Life exhibition and activities developed with the Youth Forum, a group of young people aged 14- 21, working with Recycle for Greater Manchester and a creative practitioner.
