Caring for Collections, Cutting Costs, Cherishing our Planet
Green Museums Knowledge Café #3
Wednesday 19th March 2014
The Bond ,180 - 182 Fazeley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B5 5SE
Showing you care:
communicating your green aspirations to your audience.
This café continues the progress of our cohort and explores a newer focus on how green museums can engage
their visitors and encourage them to support their improvements.
Our cafés are a mix of training, knowledge sharing, access to expert information & meeting
new partners. All museum staff and volunteers are welcome.
Audience and Interpretation expert Kate Measures will be leading a session on communicating our
sustainability messages to our visitors. Zoe Hanks, grassrootsideas will be updating us on how staff
behavioural change is happening in our museums. Also the usual technical updates, connections with
suppliers, and news of funding and engineering projects (tbc)
9.30 –
10.00
10.00- 10.15
Arrival: Tea and coffee
10.15 – 12.45
Kate Measures: Getting visitors on board with change
12.45
Lunch & networking
1.30
3.30
Intro and Update
Sharing, updating and planning:
 Birmingham Museums Trust Green team updates (TBC)
 Support for Green Champions and Green Angels across the cohort
(Zoe Hanks)
 Round table updates: solutions and problems
 How the figures are stacking up
 Green Business Tourism Awards
 Funding opportunities – for individual sites and group projects
Next steps.
All museum staff and volunteers are welcome Places are free
(please note to ensure public funds are not wasted, a £30 charge will be made to those who book but don’t show and don’t
give reasonable notice of cancellation)
In 2013, thirteen museums have begun a journey towards a greener future with the
Reducing Bills: Going Green, Marches Network: Museum Development programme.
West Midlands Museums are Greener Museums
To book a place please register here:
Eventbrite Green Museums Café#3