Anuradha Mittal: What is the Museum of the Future?
“If I were able to design and run a museum of natural history, it wouldn’t just be about history and how it was.  It would highlight the lessons that we
read more“If I were able to design and run a museum of natural history, it wouldn’t just be about history and how it was.  It would highlight the lessons that we
read more“A natural history museum of today would need to tell the story of who brought us to the brink, what are the processes, what is the destruction, as well as what are the pathways to the future.”
read more“The museum of the future should be a genuinely multidisciplinary space. If we’re talking about climate change, it wouldn’t just be talking about climate change as a problem of too much carbon in the atmosphere. It would be telling us why it’s there and who the interests are behind it, and what the real, structural barriers are to progress.”
read more“Where is the credible institution that gives me credible information by which I can take action? We need institutions with legal standing, financial backing, and some persistence in time – that’s how you make change.”
read more“The museum of the future, if it were to do the job that it should do, would be doing much more to get at the root of the problems, even if it steps on some toes. They’ve got to be showing the whole story, not just a piece of the story.”
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