Some of the Green Museum Exhibition Websites, I have found:

http://sedesignblog.blogspot.com/

http://tiny.cc/a4xae

http://www.designvic.com/SustainabilityKit/JargonBuster.aspx

http://www.greenexhibits.org

http://www.ecospecifier.org/

http://www.amazon.com/Green-Museum-Primer-Environmental-Practice/dp/0759111650/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219085672&sr=1-1

http://www.greendesignwiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://blog.cooperhewitt.org/2009/05/20/green-exhibition-design

http://ecoriteimaging.com/?page_id=323

http://www.calmuseums.info/gmi/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_museum

Cisco planning ‘cities in a box’ across Asia.

By John Boudreau SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS

June 12, 2010

INCHEON, South Korea — It’s a product like no other: a complete city for a million people.

As tens of millions of people across the developing world migrate from the countryside to new cities, Cisco Systems Inc. is helping build a prototype here for what one developer describes as an instant “city in a box.” Cisco is wiring every tech nook and cranny of the new city, making it one of the most technologically sophisticated urban centers on the planet.

Delegations of Chinese government officials looking to purchase their own cities of the future are descending on New Songdo City, a soon-to-be-completed metropolis about the size of downtown Boston that serves as a showroom model for what is expected to be the first of many assembly-line cities. In addition to state-of-the-art information technology, Songdo will emit just one-third of the greenhouse gases of a typical city of similar size.

Cities with populations of more than a million people are popping up across the developing world, but the foremost market for the prototype here is China, where a massive demographic shift from rural to urban already is under way, requiring hundreds of new cities.

“They come in here and say, ‘I’ll take one of these,’ ” said Richard Warmington, the former head of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Korea operation who is now president of Chadwick International School, which is setting up a campus in Songdo.

The potential is so big that executives at Cisco, the key tech partner for the development, get giddy talking about what could be a $30 billion business over coming years for the San Jose, Calif., networking giant.

It’s easy to see why Cisco is excited by the possibilities: According to a study by investment bank CIBC World Markets, governments are expected to spend $35 trillion in public works projects during the next 20 years. In Songdo alone, Cisco sold 20,000 units of its advanced videoconferencing system called Telepresence — a billion-dollar order — almost before the ink had dried on the contract, said developer Stan Gale, the chief visionary of the project.

“Everything will be connected: buildings, cars, energy — everything,” said Wim Elfrink, Cisco’s Bangalore-based chief globalization officer. “This is the tipping point. When we start building cities with technology in the infrastructure, it’s beyond my imagination what that will enable.”

Networking technology everywhere

The audacious plan is rising up from former mud flats along the Yellow Sea. Cisco and New York-based Gale International hope the privately funded $35 billion Songdo project leads to at least 20 similar developments in China, India, Vietnam and other countries in coming years. Much of Songdo will be completed in 2014.

“Five hundred cities are needed in China; 300 are needed in India,” said Gale, Gale International’s managing partner and an exuberant developer who says Songdo will be his legacy.

The project calls for wired everything — an urban center where networking technology is embedded into buildings from the ground up and every home, school and government agency is equipped with sophisticated Telepresence video technology — what in Cisco mantra is called Smart and Connected Communities.

For Cisco, Songdo represents more than a chance to sell hardware. The company envisions its technology as the connector for all aspects of urban life — government services, utilities, entertainment, health care, education — with new business models built around its Telepresence technology — say, a yoga class beamed into living rooms or medical checkups done remotely. All of these would be managed through a single Internet network, and Cisco would collect a recurring fee for maintaining the services, almost like a utility.

“It will be like paying a maintenance fee once a month,” said Christopher Khang, a Cisco vice president based in Singapore. “It’s a radically new business model for the company.”

Building this technology into new construction adds relatively little to the overall construction costs, Khang said. “But the benefits are going to be huge. I believe we are the only company that can provide this holistic (technology) environment.”

Pitfalls of a grand master plan

It looks good on paper. But will Chinese officials buy into this vision of a tech utopia?

“It seems a little speculative,” said Broadpoint AmTech analyst Mark McKechnie. Still, he added, “If you want to be around, you have to have a 10-year plan. If this doesn’t develop, at least they’ll learn something new they can apply to different businesses.”

Current Exhibitions related to Climate Change:

“Hot Pink Flamingos” at Monterey Bay Aquarium
http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/storage/pressroom/presskit/pdf/Hot_Pink_Flamingos_Press_Kit_0310.pdf&sa=X&ei=kAHtS7qoLo7cswOS-ZC_Dw&ved=0CBkQzgQoADAA&usg=AFQjCNGW32TD8R9PsG_mDNgAPrHkpmRdiQ

Climate science gallery at the Science Museum, London
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/climate_science.aspx

Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront at MOMA
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1031

Earth Under Fire at AAAS
http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2009/1117art_exhibit.shtml

Green by Design at the Tech Museum of Innovation
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/permanent/index.php?galKey=gd

Climate X at the Norwegian Technical and Science Museum
http://www.visitoslo.com/en/oslos-museum-of-science-and-technology-wins-leading-edge-award.49108.376058r99a.tln.html

Birch Aquarium at UCSD
http://www.aquarium.ucsd.edu/Exhibits/Feeling_the_Heat/fth_movies/fth_3min_sm.mov

Climate Change at the AMNH
http://www.amnh.org/rose/hope/climate/

Duplicate of Climate Change at PRAE in Spain
http://www.praecyl.es/exposiciones/cambio-climatico/

Bill Nye’s Climate Lab at the Chabot Space and Science Center
http://billsclimatelab.org/

The Last Days of Shishmaref at LP II, Rotterdam
http://www.thelastdaysofshishmaref.com/shishmaref3/cms/cms_module/index.php

The Ancient Basin exhibit at the Washakie Museum
http://www.washakiemuseum.org/ancient_basin_11.html

INLO International Action on Global Warming
http://astc.org/iglo/c3/science-center-activities/

Grasping Climate a traveling exhibition from Teknikenshus, Sweeden
http://www.teknikenshus.se/english/exhibitions/temporary/index.html

Climate Change at the Australian Museum
http://australianmuseum.net.au/blogpost/Thumbs-up-for-climate-change-exhibition/

I call lots of museums.  I have become fascinated by the telephone systems of different museums, some museum telephone systems are easy to navigate and some are nerve racking and frustrating.

Exhibitions are a form of communication and the culture of the museum offers the “voice” to that communication.  Is the “voice” a friend? A teacher? An older relative?  It is fascinating the different voices that are communicated for exhibitions.  I like thinking in analogies, often I learn more about the culture of a museum from their phone system than I do from their organizational chart.  Is the phone system user friendly?  Easy to navigate? Helpful?  Able to connect me with the information in the way I want to connect?

Think about your own museum phone system and try calling as a teacher wanting to book a school trip.  Try calling as a mother wanting directions, try calling as the vendor who works on the air conditioning, for each call were your needs met?  Could you connect with the appropriate person?

In many ways a phone system is like a museum, callers are contacting the museum for information tailored to them in a welcoming fashion at their own level, a tall order, but try calling American Express and see how you feel or call Fidelity Investments and see how you feel.  Information tailored to the visitor in a pleasant and efficient manner, it can be done!

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703964104575335301840480246.html

The Museum of Modern Art attracted its highest-ever number of visitors, 3.09 million, during its 2010 fiscal year, according to estimates released Monday by the museum. (The tally is an estimate because the museum’s fiscal year does not end until June 30.) The figure represents an increase of 250,000 over the previous year’s attendance, and a 530,000 increase over the museum’s first full year of operation in its new building (fiscal year 2006).

Architect:Frank Gehry
Structure:Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Year Completed:1997
Number of Votes:28
By Peter Knaup

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/architecture-survey-slideshow-201008

Vanity Fair asked 52 experts to choose the five most important works of architecture created since 1980, they named a staggering 132 different structures. Here are the top 21, in order of popularity.

Guggenheim plans extension in Spanish nature reserve | Culture | The Guardian.

“The Guggenheim Museum has become the emblem of the northern Spanish city of Bilbao and its main tourist attraction, but now attempts to spread its magic by building an extension in a nearby nature reserve have run into fierce opposition.

Provincial authorities want to call an international competition for a museum extension in the bucolic surroundings of the coastal Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve, 25 miles from Bilbao, hoping it will help boost the local economy in the same way the Guggenheim helped Bilbao.”

Pasadena’s Kidspace Museum plans new “Physics Forest” expansion – Pasadena Star-News.

“That was part of the reasoning when officials at Kidspace Children’s Museum, bowing to economic realities, opted to put on hold an ambitious $20million, 9,000-square-foot building and instead create a Physics Forest that will feature 10 to 15 new exhibits in a naturally landscaped area shaded with transplanted native trees.”

Taman Mini, Indonesia Indah, Jakarta 13560
http://ppiptek.ristek.go.id

PRESS RELEASE

Dr. Legoh, Director of the Science-Technology Center, Indonesia announced today the planning of the new exhibition “Global Warming”. The exhibition is scheduled to open in early 2011. Dr. Legoh said “this is a critical topic for the future of Indonesia and it is our responsibility to educate the public of how they can make a difference”. The exhibition will be 235 square meters (2500 square feet) and will be a on the third floor of the Center. Hendra Suryanto; Science Officer said, “the Center is in the early stages of the planning of the exhibition and we excited to be part of a world wide effort to make a difference.

The Science-Technology Center, Indonesia is located in Taman Mini, Jakarta, Indonesia and is the largest science center in Indonesia. The Center is visited by 300,000 visitors annually and hosts 200 school groups per year. The Center is considered to be the finest science educational facility in Indonesia receiving a rating of excellent by more than 85% of the Center’s visitors. The center has a policy of social responsibility and will not turn away visitors unable to pay museum admission 15,000 rupiah. The Science-Technology Center, Indonesia is non-profit and an active member of the Association of Science and Technology Centers, the largest professional organization of science museums.

The Science and Technology Center has retained Museum Planer, LLC to assist in the planning and fund raising of the exhibition. Contact Mark Walhimer for information regarding sponsorship opportunities.

Mark Walhimer

Museums Special Section – Smartphones Serve as Docents in Many Museums – NYTimes.com

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