Originally posted on AIM Blog for independent museums and heritage sites:
Museums across the UK can access an extremely useful and easy to use online toolkit for making small and medium size tourism destinations more environmentally sustainable (and thereby saving money of course!) created by Visit Wales. Most of the resources and advice are not specific…
(via Sustainability West Midlands ) Do you have an idea for a product or service which could help tackle climate change? If so Wyre Forest District Council and local low carbon community group Transition Kidderminster would like to hear from you. They have teamed up to find new green entrepreneurs. They are searching for local…
Originally posted on Behind the Scenes at Nuneaton Museum:
Visitors to Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery will find changes taking place between October 1st and 24th when they visit. The installation of new double glazed windows to replace the old wooden windows will be taking place, forcing some temporary gallery closures. Changing to double…
Originally posted on Museum Development North West:
Museum Freecycle UK, was launched last week and aims to provide a platform for museums to offer each other showcases and other exhibition build items that would otherwise be discarded. Caroline Keppel-Palmer, the managing director of Urban Salon, which founded Museum Freecycle UK, said: “As exhibition designers, we…
Many museums are paying too much for their energy. This could be for a number of reasons: They are not aware of charity exemptions from the Climate Change Levy They are not aware that charities are eligible for a 5% VAT rate on fuel They have multiple energy contracts which are difficult to manage They are…
Many of our green museums in the West Midlands are housed in historic buildings that are difficult to insulate and heat efficiently. One way to keep the draught out and make these buildings more efficient is with thermally lined curtains. The National Trust and Good Energy have created a five part video tutorial on making thermal…
Details of an event that may be of interest to the Green Museums: Old House Eco Course – The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (14 June 2014, Coventry) The Old House Eco Course aims to give practical advice on how to make pre-1919 buildings more sustainable, energy efficient and low carbon without threatening the character…
A guided tour around Shugborough Historic estate is the basis of our next Green Museums Knowledge Cafe on 4th june. Sign up now Shugborough are enthusiastic members of our Reducing Bills group and on the tour, as well as water and lighting changes we will see their plans for a solar panel array in…
Originally posted on AIM Blog for independent museums and heritage sites:
We are delighted to announce that AIM is launching a new initiative to support member museums and heritage organisations to reduce their energy costs through bulk buying their energy supplies. Museums and heritage organisations, like all businesses across the UK, are facing rising costs…
Museums: Going Green 