Reducing the environmental impact of exhibitions & loans

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Trainers:

Dana Andrew, The Exhibitions Group

What will be covered?

Join this interactive virtual training to learn how to use the Rethinking Touring Exhibitions Toolkit to reduce the environmental impact of exhibitions and loans. You’ll discover practical strategies, explore a real-life case study, and gain confidence in making environmentally informed decisions.

The session covers all key toolkit areas, from partnerships and procurement to transport, design, and advocacy, to show you what’s within your sphere of influence and how to take action. Limited to 24 participants for maximum interaction, this training will leave you empowered to drive positive change in your organisation and the wider museum sector.

You can download the Toolkit from TEG's Environmental Responsibility Hub.

Session preparation

Pre-session task:

In advance of the training, please calculate the carbon footprint of a recent UK incoming loan to your museum, or a loan out from your museum. Please choose a single object.

If you are already registered with GCC, please use the Gallery Climate Coalition Calculator. If you are not registered with GCC but are registered with Julie’s Bicycle, please use their calculator Creative Climate Tools. If you are not registered with either GCC or Julie’s Bicycle, please use the STiCH carbon calculator.

If you have any questions about this pre-training task, or require any assistance, please contact seminars@theexhibitionsgroup.org.uk

Pre-session Introduction to the Toolkit:

Please watch this 10 minute video presentation before the session. Dana Andrew, Professional Development Manager at The Exhibitions Group, introduces the Rethinking Touring Exhibitions Toolkit and gives a brief overview of the Developing Sustainable Exhibitions and Loans workshop.

Who should attend?

Museums with active loans and exhibition programmes, and those considering developing activity in this area.

Learning objectives

Led by The Exhibitions Group, this training will:

• use the Rethinking Touring Exhibitions Toolkit as its basis
• help museums to reduce the environmental impact of exhibitions and loans projects
• enable museums to recognise their influence by embedding environmental responsibility into their work
• support museums to know how to work more collaboratively with colleagues and contractors towards agreed sustainability goals and ambitions

Accessibility

To help us ensure you get the most out of the session, you will be asked to email us with any access requirements you may have when you complete your order form. Please see the list of examples of adjustments we can make. This list is not exhaustive and we would be happy to accommodate other requirements where possible, please email us to discuss.

Eligibility

MDSE is funded by Arts Council England (ACE) to support museums in the South East of England within ACE’s Accreditation scheme. The South East is defined as the local authority areas of:

• Bedfordshire (Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Luton Borough)
• Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead and Wokingham)
• Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
• Hertfordshire
• Kent and Medway
• Norfolk
• Oxfordshire
• Suffolk
• Surrey
• East Sussex and Brighton & Hove
• West Sussex

We prioritise places on our training programmes for museums which are Accredited or officially Working Towards Accreditation. ACE publishes the official lists of Accredited and Working Towards Accreditationmuseums on its website. Where possible we will make places available for museums which do not meet these criteria but the number of places will vary depending on the event format.

London tickets

MDSE is working with Museum Development London (MDL) to deliver some of our training and development programmes.

If you are working or volunteering for a museum in London you are eligible to attend this session.

Terms & Conditions:

For full details of our programmes conditions, see our Terms and Conditions on our website

By booking a place on to a Museum Development South East training event, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

• That you are from a South East museum which is in Arts Council England’s Museum Accreditation Scheme. Where this is not applicable you acknowledge that MDSE will facilitate your attendance if availability permits and that you or your organisation will pay any fees which may apply.
• It is a condition of receiving this ACE funded training that the online evaluation sent to the email address provided at the point of booking is completed by the specified deadline. This deadline is in the email notification unless a paper evaluation is specifically requested and submitted on the day of the training session.
• By booking a place you agree that you will make every endeavour to attend the event and you will give us at least 24 hours’ notice if you need to cancel your booking. If you repeatedly cancel your booking without sufficient notice you agree that we may exercise our right to remove you from future event bookings.