INTERVIEW
The intersection between culture, community and the environment
Bridget McKenzie is the founder of the Climate Museum UK, a venture that brings together creative practitioners to work with their communities on responses to the environmental crisis. It is one of a number of projects that Bridget is involved with, putting environmen- tal issues squarely in the cultural arena. Bridget will be speaking at this year’s CILIPS Conference, and here she tells Rob Green why cultural activity is so important in the fight to save the planet.
AS well as recently setting up the Climate Museum UK, Bridget McKenzie has been active in a world that crosses culture, environment and education for over a decade.
Alongside her role with the Cultural Museum UK, she is a researcher and curative curator in culture, learning and environment; a director of Flow Associates; and works with Culture Unstained, Culture Declares Emer- gency and Museums for the Future. The intersection between culture, envi- ronment and learning is clearly an area where Bridget sees the potential for positive change. She explains that Climate Museum UK is an extension of that experience and a deep-seated need to encourage every sector to play their part. She says: “I founded the concept of Climate Museum UK in 2018, after 12 years or so running many creative climate projects and making calls to the cultural sector to face the Earth crisis. I wanted to feel less lonely, and to form a crew with whom to navigate and prototype a museum that would respond to — and evolve with — this worsening crisis.
“At first, I hosted several prototyping workshops which grew a community of in- terested people, and we registered in the UK as a Community Interest Company (CIC) in December 2019. Our group is formed of independent artists and communica- tors, currently based in the South East of
April-May 2021
Rob Green (
rob.green@
cilip.org.uk) is Editor, Information Professional.
England but with ambitions to expand our reach across the UK.”
Mission, Vision, Values
Climate Museum UK’s goals help to under- pin the role it plays in bringing together voices and people with a shared mission.
l Mission: we are a mobile and digital museum, stirring and collecting responses
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