Thematic block SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE PROTECTION

14:30 - 15:00 Lecture: Climate protection in museums: acting ecologically and utilising potential

Making museum work sustainable is not only a necessity and a challenge, but also an opportunity for museums. As places of education and exchange, they have a special social responsibility in the area of sustainability. The German Museums Association presents working aids and practical examples and highlights the potential, challenges and prospects of climate protection in museums

15:00 -15:30 Lecture: A future-oriented, sustainable cultural organisation: climate protection and adaptation at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum deals with the question ‘How do we want to live?’ from different perspectives and thus puts the challenges of a globally changing society up for discussion. As a ‘museum about people’, it is therefore also committed to addressing climate change and issues of ecology and sustainability - in its exhibitions, in its educational work and in its events programme, but also in the running of the institution itself. The museum has set itself the goal of becoming a sustainable cultural institution. The sustainability process is holistically and strategically aligned with the mission statement and all areas of the museum, from the programme to building management, from exhibition construction to everyday administrative processes.

Examples and challenges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the museum's own operations will be presented, as well as measures to increase biodiversity, such as the redesign of the 3,000 m2 gravelled area of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum's inner courtyard into a green and near-natural thicket. In addition, practical experiences of CO2 balancing are shared and projects for climate adaptation of the operation, from the flood-protected museum depot to the re-utilisation of rainwater in its own cistern, are presented.

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