Nestled among the designer boutiques on a cobbled street in New York’s SoHo, sits a true pioneer: America’s first-ever museum dedicated to the climate crisis. For the past five years, The Climate Museum has hosted exhibitions, art installations, talks, performances and workshops across the five boroughs and online, reaching more than 105,000 people. Since October, it has been a pop-up museum in a bright and airy space on Wooster Street where it’s free for anyone to visit on afternoons from Wednesday until Sunday.
The museum has both art works and interactive exhibits – a recording booth to share messages on the climate crisis; a sticker station to add your climate resolutions to an ever-growing wall; stacks of postcards for writing to a lawmaker of your choosing (which staff will stamp and post).
While the atmosphere is light and welcoming, there’s a serious mission at work to tap into a deep, often unvoiced, sense of aloneness which can overwhelm people when they begin to contemplate the vast and amorphous climate crisis.
