Climate Change Exhibits: Changing Behaviors for Visitors and Museums

Climate Change Exhibits: Changing Behaviors for Visitors and Museums

Saturday: 3:45-5:00

Find out how climate change exhibits can force museums to address relevant societal issues and respond to ever-changing content and public perceptions. Presenters share their rationale, challenges and solutions to change visitor attitudes and behavior as well as ways to communicate important dynamic science concepts. Chair: Carol Tang, Director, Visitor Interpretive Programs, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

(Description of session is from AAM)

On-site Insight: Green Museum Makeover

On-site Insight: Green Museum Makeover

Friday: 1:30-3:30, $10.00

This tour of the African American Museum will explore first-tier options for going green and will discuss how self-assessment and prioritization help plan longer-term changes to improve sustainability. The session will be led by Sarah S. Brody, an independent consultant helping museums and other cultural institutions become environmentally and financially sustainable through grants, mainstreaming activities and green performance.

(Description of session is from AAM)

On-site Insight Event: Science for Citizens: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Museums

On-site Insight Event: Science for Citizens: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Museums

Thursday: 9:30-11:30 , $10.00

Join the Academy of Natural Sciences for a lively Town Square event examining how museums can help fight global warming. Learn how to use the museum setting for discussions bringing together experts, stakeholders and the public, promoting thoughtful exchanges on important issues relating to science, sustainability and the environment.

(Description of session is from AAM)

Going Green through Social Marketing

I’m curious to see, in some of the AAM sessions,  if anyone talks about changing visitor behavior through exhibits and programs?  If so, do any of them address accomplishing their goals using a social marketing approach?   I just read a recent Time article ,How Obama Is Using The Science of Change ,that talks about how Obama has embraced behavioral science within his administration to “manipulate” the public into changing their behavior (ex. adopting green practices).  It seems like a cutting edge way of thinking about traditional modes of message delivery in exhibits as well as how museums can impact their visitors in ways that resonate beyond the walls of the institution and into individual lives & communities.  How would a museum use social marketing to effect change in visitors?  What would it look like?…

The Greener Museum

On-site Insight Event: Science for Citizens: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Museums
Thursday: 9:30-11:30 , $10.00
Join the Academy of Natural Sciences for a lively Town Square event examining how museums can help fight global warming. Learn how to use the museum setting for discussions bringing together experts, stakeholders and the public, promoting thoughtful exchanges on important issues relating to science, sustainability and the environment.

On-site Insight: Green Museum Makeover
Friday: 1:30-3:30, $10.00
This tour of the African American Museum will explore first-tier options for going green and will discuss how self-assessment and prioritization help plan longer-term changes to improve sustainability. The session will be led by Sarah S. Brody, an independent consultant helping museums and other cultural institutions become environmentally and financially sustainable through grants, mainstreaming activities and green performance.

Climate Change Exhibits: Changing Behaviors for Visitors and Museums
Saturday: 3:45-5:00
Find out how climate change exhibits can force museums to address relevant societal issues and respond to ever-changing content and public perceptions. Presenters share their rationale, challenges and solutions to change visitor attitudes and behavior as well as ways to communicate important dynamic science concepts. Chair: Carol Tang, Director, Visitor Interpretive Programs, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA

Session descriptions from AAM, http://www.aam-us.org/am09/.