Is your project or exhibition making a difference for the climate? Enter it into the sustainability category at this year’s prestigious Museums + Heritage Awards.
As part of The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s commitment to help heritage adapt to and mitigate against the climate crisis and support nature’s recovery, it is sponsoring the Museum + Heritage Awards’ Sustainable Project of the Year category for a fourth year running.
What are they looking for in award nominees?
The National Lottery heritage Fund is seeking projects or exhibitions which can demonstrate best practice in their approach to managing or communicating environmental impacts. They may have used, for example, energy efficiency measures, green visitor travel planning or unique approaches to engaging audiences with the climate crisis.
Entries should also identify any wider economic, social or environmental benefits to the organisation or community that have arisen from ‘thinking sustainably’.
This year there will be up to two winners:
1. A winner that has used simple, affordable and easily transferable approaches.
Like the 2020 winner, Museum of Oxford. Their temporary exhibition Queering Spires: a history of LGBTIQA+ spaces was recognised for its sustainable approach to sourcing local art pieces and materials.
2. A winner that is a project with environmental sustainability embedded at its heart.
Like the 2021 winner, Penzance Jubilee Pool. This trailblazing lido significantly reduced its environmental impact by creating the UK’s first geothermally heated pool.
Nominating your project or exhibition
The awards are open to all museums, galleries and archives, as well as digital, cultural, natural and built heritage projects – regardless of budget or size. Projects must be based in the UK.
The winner will receive a year’s membership to Fit For the Future, an environmental sustainability network of over 150 charities, heritage organisations, cultural venues, public sector bodies and more.
The awards are free to enter and open until 1 February 2023.
Find out more on the Heritage Fund website