Davies to chair green debate at Garden Museum
Geraldine Kendall, 21.12.2011
Event aims to challenge sector to be more sustainable
Update
05.01.2012
The event is now fully booked but organisers have set aside additional places for technicians and publications professionals due to a lack of representation from those fields. Please email jade@gardenmuseum.org.uk to book your place.
The Museums Association's head of policy, Maurice Davies, will this month chair an open discussion for young museum professionals who want to challenge the sector to be more environmentally sustainable.
The event, Operation Green Museum, takes place at London's Garden Museum on Monday 23 January. It has been organised by Jade-Lauren Cawthray, a participant on the museum's traineeship programme into the sustainability of heritage.
Cawthray is hoping the event will enable a wide range of people to share examples of innovative practice, find out more about obstacles to sustainability and encourage cohesion in the sector.
The discussion is not intended for experts, but for anyone who works in museums and has an interest in environmental sustainability.
Davies said: "This is a really great idea and I am delighted to support it. It absolutely harmonises with the work we did on sustainability a number of years ago.
"We found then that, in a lot of ways, change in an organisation happens from both top down and bottom up. There is a genuine role for all sorts of people to try and improve things. I would really encourage people to sign up."
The event will start at 2.30pm with a tour of the museum's current exhibition, From Garden City to Green City, led by director Christopher Woodward. The discussion commences at 3pm.
05.01.2012
The event is now fully booked but organisers have set aside additional places for technicians and publications professionals due to a lack of representation from those fields. Please email jade@gardenmuseum.org.uk to book your place.
The Museums Association's head of policy, Maurice Davies, will this month chair an open discussion for young museum professionals who want to challenge the sector to be more environmentally sustainable.
The event, Operation Green Museum, takes place at London's Garden Museum on Monday 23 January. It has been organised by Jade-Lauren Cawthray, a participant on the museum's traineeship programme into the sustainability of heritage.
Cawthray is hoping the event will enable a wide range of people to share examples of innovative practice, find out more about obstacles to sustainability and encourage cohesion in the sector.
The discussion is not intended for experts, but for anyone who works in museums and has an interest in environmental sustainability.
Davies said: "This is a really great idea and I am delighted to support it. It absolutely harmonises with the work we did on sustainability a number of years ago.
"We found then that, in a lot of ways, change in an organisation happens from both top down and bottom up. There is a genuine role for all sorts of people to try and improve things. I would really encourage people to sign up."
The event will start at 2.30pm with a tour of the museum's current exhibition, From Garden City to Green City, led by director Christopher Woodward. The discussion commences at 3pm.
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