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The Climate Museum is open as a pop-up in New York

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The Climate Museum pop-up can be found in New York through 22 December.

The Climate Museum, the first-ever US museum dedicated to the climate crisis, has opened as a pop-up in New York’s Soho with a major work of art by David Opdyke.

The museum, which hopes to set up a permanent space, was created to promote learning and climate action through public programming and exhibitions.

Opdyke’s Someday, all this mural offers features 400 vintage postcards that the artist has decorated with apocalyptic imagery to explore the impact of the climate crisis on the American landscape. His work can also be seen in MoMA and the Brooklyn Museum.

Promoting climate action

Founded in 2015 by the former civil rights lawyer Miranda Massie, the Climate Museum pop-up can be found in New York through 22 December.

The museum’s programming launched in 2018. Since then, it has provided free exhibitions, art installations, interactive panels, youth programmes and advocacy tools in and around New York.

 “Museums are trusted and popular, and the arts reach people how we most need to be reached: emotionally and communally,” Massie told the Art Newspaper.

“There’s an urgent need for a shift toward climate dialogue, expression and engagement. Without this cultural shift, we won’t get the transformational policy that’s needed to safeguard our well-being and all the things we love.”

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The Climate Museum’s programming at the pop-up includes a presentation by philosopher Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, a climate science series for children with NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and a climate justice Q&A with Chisholm Legacy Project founder Jacqui Patterson.

Highlights also include a discussion on climate migration with journalists Vann Newkirk, Somini Sengupta, and Sarah Stillman, and a virtual visit to the JOIDES Resolution climate expedition ship with scientist Gisela Winckler.

Elsewhere, the youth non-profit organisation Force of Nature is hosting a climate café for eco-anxious guests at London’s Natural History Museum (NHM) during COP27.

Images: The Climate Museum

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Bea Mitchell

Bea is a journalist specialising in entertainment, attractions and tech with 10 years' experience. She has written and edited for publications including CNET, BuzzFeed, Digital Spy, Evening Standard and BBC. Bea graduated from King's College London and has an MA in journalism.

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