museums

Jenny Price argues the efficacy of alt-institution public art projects for environmental humanities practitioners and uses examples from her own practice and beyond.

In this Smart Forests Radio episode, Dr. Frank Vorhies explores the economic aspects of conservation initatives, focusing on how different views of conservation and biodiversity influence contributing activities and quantification methods.

In the fifth episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins meets Richard Forrest, steward of the Lytton Museum and Archives, to talk about the devastating losses sustained by the municipal repository through the Lytton fire and to contemplate the futures of collections in digitized records and photographs, and 3-D printed copies of objects.

In this first episode of Archival Ecologies, Jayme Collins follows one of the many stories of salvage and recovery after the devastating 2021 wildfire in Lytton, Canada—the story of the Lytton Chinese History Museum and its founder.

Article from a special issue on animal history.

Article from a special issue on animal history.

Haebich, Anna. “Negotiating Botanical Collections: Dr Johann Preiss in Germany and Western Australia.” In “The European Exchange,” edited by Ashley Hay and Natasha Cica. The Griffith Review 69 (2020): 101–108.

Libby Robin discusses animals in museums, and how taxidermy has changed from art in the service of science to the backbone of art itself, both in museums and beyond.