Empowering museums to cultivate climate action and community resilience

Success story: Manchester Museum

• 1,400 CARBON REDUCTION ACTIONS CREATED IN THE FIRST 18 MONTHS

• OVER 260 ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED SO FAR

• 1,500 INDIVIDUALS WILL RECEIVE CARBON LITERACY  TRAINING

Roots and Branches is a partnership project between Manchester Museum, Museum Development North West and The Carbon Literacy Project, funded through Arts Council England. This collaboration is passionate about the role museums can play in addressing the inequalities in our society, including those created by the climate crisis.

Roots and Branches demonstrates how museums can  become sites for inspiring environmental action.

The ‘Roots’ of the project is creating a nationally significant coworking hub of environmental action at Manchester Museum to benefit diverse groups from across the city.

The 'Branches' of the project is equipping museum staff and volunteers across England and beyond with the tools to take positive climate action, underpinned by a dedicated Carbon Literacy for Museums Toolkit. 

“Committing to carbon reduction [now feels] realistic and the support throughout has really helped me to plan out how this can be made possible.”

Roots and Branches participant