Living Worlds (Manchester Museum, 2011)

Living Worlds
(Manchester Museum, 2011)
Exploring nature and people’s relationships with nature
Living Worlds was a major redevelopment of the previous Mammal Gallery to create a new gallery that empowered people to explore the relationships between people and nature.
The concept drew on academic work on attitudes to nature by the late Stephen Kellert of Yale University, the 5 Ways to Wellbeing, and environmental messages that promote a connection to nature and empowerment. The gallery was designed by villa eugénie, a Brussels-based events design firm as their first museum gallery project.
…a new gallery that empowered people to explore the relationships between people and nature.

I led the content and interpretation aspect of the project, including selecting object and specimens, storylines, partnerships and more, working closely with the museum’s then Head of Exhibitions Jeff Horsley.
From 2015, the gallery was used as the location of Manchester’s civic commemoration of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, in collaboration with the Mayors for Peace network.