Existances Museums: powering stories to delay the end of the world
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The article presents the Existances Museums project, which was awarded in the Reimagining Museums for Climate Action contest, promoted by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and is part of the cultural events that make up COP 26, held in November 2021 in the city of Glasgow. On display at the Glasgow Science Center since July 2021, the project proposes to radically rethink the role of museums in the face of the challenges posed by climate change. Therefore, it considers the colonialist character of museums, environmental racism and, from this, reflects on how community museums could constitute a network of ecological resistance by sharing histories and cosmological heritage of communities that have resisted, for centuries, to the extractivist and genocidal onto-epistemology imposed on African and Amerindian peoples by European colonial expansion.
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