Black museums face greater peril in the climate crisis
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Black museums face greater peril in the climate crisis Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Climate change news Black museums face greater peril in the climate crisis The Association of African American Museums outlines heightened issues facing Black cultural centres, including old infrastructure, coastal locations and lack of access to funds and resources Annabel Keenan 7 February 2024 Share The Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis, Maryland, is under threat from rising water levels Courtesy Banneker-Douglass Museum While cultural institutions across the globe grapple with the effects of climate change, a consortium of African American museums and heritage sites says that these are uniquely at risk. In a recent statement, the Association of African American Museums (AAAM), a non-profit that supports institutions preserving and sharing African American stories, outlined the heightened issues facing Black cultural centres, including their older infrastructures, locations along coastlines and lack of access to crucial funds and resources. “Several incidents of climate-related damage have occurred within the past decades,” Vedet Coleman-Robinson, the executive director of AAAM, tells The Art Newspaper .