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Museums in a Climate of Change: Chatter Marks EP 72 Creating sustainable exhibitions with Lizzy Bakker of NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam

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Society & Culture

5884 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Until recently, Lizzy Bakker was the senior exhibition maker at NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. NEMO is all about interacting with science and technology in order to better understand the world around us, to make its visitors curious about the mechanisms that shape their lives. It turns out, exhibition design conveys a lot. Research carried out by NEMO found that if an exhibition has an unsustainable look and feel to it — ultimately an unsustainable design — then people won’t take the message seriously. So, it’s important for them to work toward creating exhibitions that are as sustainable as possible. Right now, NEMO is focused on sustainability and the climate crisis. This year, staff came together to create The Green Team, a cohort dedicated to putting sustainability high on the museum’s agenda. Among other things, this means creating sustainable exhibitions — reusing parts of previous exhibitions for future ones, for example. It also means helping to create exhibitions that talk about the climate crisis. Currently they have an interactive exhibition called Energy Junkies where you can make decisions about the world’s energy system that will determine a more or less sustainable future. The idea is for people to understand the climate crisis and how energy production is related to it, and the different solutions that are available for individuals, businesses and governments. In this Chatter Marks series, Cody and co-host Dr. Sandro Debono talk to museum directors and knowledge holders about what museums around the world are doing to adapt and react to climate change. Dr. Debono is a museum thinker from the Mediterranean island of Malta. He works with museums to help them strategize around possible futures.

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Yeah, so what we did for Energy Junkies actually, we spoke with a lot of people also to see how, like the idea of the exhibition is that people understand the climate crisis and how energy production is related to this crisis and the different solutions that are there, both for individuals and for governments companies

0:36.0

etc and we did some research and we found that if your exhibition has an unsustainable look and feel,

0:44.8

an unsustainable design, then people will not

0:47.9

take the message seriously.

0:50.1

So for this exhibition, it was really important to really make it as sustainable as possible because otherwise you will miss your target of what you actually want to reach with the exhibition.

1:02.0

So there the design really

1:03.2

highly impacts, yeah, the way that people experience the exhibition.

1:10.8

That was Lizzie Bocker and until recently she was the senior exhibition maker at Nemo Science Museum in Amsterdam.

1:19.0

Nemo is all about interacting with science and technology in order to better understand the world around us,

1:26.0

to make its visitors curious about the mechanisms that shape their lives.

1:31.2

It turns out, exhibition design conveys a lot.

1:34.0

Research carried out by Nemo

1:36.0

found that if an exhibition has an unsustainable look and feel to it,

1:40.0

ultimately an unsustainable design,

1:42.0

then people won't take the message seriously.

1:45.0

So it's important for them to work toward creating exhibitions that are as sustainable as possible.

1:51.0

Right now, Nemo is focused on sustainability and the climate crisis.

1:57.0

This year, staff came together to create the Green team, a cohort dedicated to putting

2:02.3

sustainability high on the museum's agenda.

2:05.0

Among other things, this means creating sustainable exhibitions,

2:09.0

reusing parts of previous exhibitions for future ones, for example.

2:14.4

It also means helping to create exhibitions that talk about the climate crisis.

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