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ANR_1_3_Cover.indd 2 31/10/2014 12:36:11 PM Volume 1 Number 3 December 2014 Contents Research articles Three galleries of the Anthropocene 207 Libby Robin, Dag Avango, Luke Keogh, Nina Möllers, Bernd Scherer and Helmuth Trischler Prelude to the Anthropocene: Two new North American Land Mammal Ages (NALMAs) 225 Anthony D Barnosky, Michael Holmes, Renske Kirchholtes, Emily Lindsey, Kaitlin C Maguire, Ashley W Poust, M Allison Stegner, Jun Sunseri, Brian Swartz, Jillian Swift, Natalia A Villavicencio and Guinevere OU Wogan Perspectives and controversies Map stories can provide dynamic visualizations of the Anthropocene to broaden factually based public understanding 243 Andrew Zolnai Reviews Human rights and the environment in the Anthropocene 252 Louis J Kotzé Is there an isotopic signature of the Anthropocene? 276 Jonathan R Dean, Melanie J Leng and Anson W Mackay ANR0010.1177/2053019614550533The Anthropocene ReviewRobin et al. 550533research-article2014 Research article The Anthropocene Review 2014, Vol. 1(3) 207 –224 Three galleries of the © The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: Anthropocene sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/2053019614550533 anr.sagepub.com Libby Robin,1 Dag Avango,2 Luke Keogh,3 Nina Möllers,3 Bernd Scherer4 and Helmuth Trischler3 Abstract This paper considers three ‘galleries’ that explore the Anthropocene in cultural ways, and the implications of the Anthropocene idea for cultural institutions and heritage. The first gallery is the 2014–2016 exhibition Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands, [Willkommen im Anthropozän: Unsere Verantwortung für die Zukunft der Erde] at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. The second ‘gallery’ of Anthropocene Posters sponsored by the Art Museum, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), placed the Anthropocene in a ‘museum without walls’ in the streets of Berlin in 2013. The third ‘gallery of the Anthropocene’, was not a museum, but rather a landscape gallery (or ‘spectacle’) of in situ industrial heritage in Svalbard. Pyramiden, a town established to mine coal well north of the Arctic Circle in the early 20th century, has been recently transformed as an attraction for climate change science and heritage tourism. Here the hybridized local landscape creates a snapshot of the Anthropocene, bringing together industrial coal-mining heritage buildings, polar tourism and science forged in the geopolitics of the changing Arctic environment. Keywords Anthropocene, community participation, Deutsches Museum, environmental crisis, environmental humanities, global change science, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, museum exhibitions, Pyramiden, Rachel Carson Center As global warming and climate change begin to affect different local communities in very different ways, museums become places for personal reflection on the future of the planet. The public is thirsty for clear information and nuanced discussions on environmental change at both local and global scales, but there are few opportunities for serious conversations about these issues that are inclusive of diverse audiences, and people of all ages. Museums focus on the material world: objects, artworks and historical collections. Such materiality can be helpful in environmental 1National Museum of Australia, Australia Corresponding author: 2Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Libby Robin, National Museum of Australia, GPO Box 3Deutsches Museum, Germany 1901, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, 4Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany Australia. Email: [email protected] Downloaded from anr.sagepub.com by dusan barok on February 6, 2015 208 The Anthropocene Review 1(3) discussions, which are often abstract and filled with modelling that is beyond the mathematical literacy of the general public. Objects reach beyond the limitations of words, speaking directly to people without the limitations of language (Bennett, 2001, 2010). This paper explores three real and very different ‘galleries’ of the Anthropocene. It considers how the material display of objects can foster conversations about living in times of rapid environ- mental change. Global knowledge is most commonly either narrowly scientific or packaged sim- plistically by the ‘fast and furious’ commercial media (Christensen, 2013). In museums, there is a space to sponsor a ‘third way’. The exhibition is an example of slow media, a forum for thoughtful reflection. By analogy with the slow food movement, the slow medium of a museum gallery offers room to explore the complexities of a rapidly changing world on a personal scale. The very pace of a museum visit and the process of engaging with physical objects and artwork is itself helpful for enabling participation and discussion about the factors driving accelerating change in the 21st century, a time where change has become so widespread that a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, has been proposed (Crutzen, 2002; Crutzen and Stoermer, 2000). Time spent with well-chosen displays, perhaps enhanced by casual companionship with other visitors in that gallery space, can give individuals and communities the chance to respond to a spectacle where they can ‘reshape media content as they personalize it for their own use’ (Ekström et al., 2011: 1). The big narrative of the Anthropocene is that human activities are shaping the way the planet works. While it was atmospheric chemists who proposed the new geological epoch of the Anthropocene in 2000, the concept held immediate appeal for global change scientists more broadly: oceanographers, glaciologists, environmental physicists, soil scientists and geologists were all dis-
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