The MUSA (Museums and Environmental Sustainability) project, an initiative of the Sustainable Art Association, was born in 2024 in response to the need for museums to address environmental challenges in the fight against climate change.
Lack of budget and shortage of knowledge or skills in this area are the main reasons why many museums do not take measures to reduce the environmental impact of their activities.
In this context, MUSA seeks to activate environmental commitment in those museums that lack specific knowledge, while at the same time broadening and deepening the knowledge of those that are more aware, accompanying them in their transition towards a more sustainable environmental management model, and helping them to become active agents in this transformation.
Through training actions, MUSA provides museum technical staff with practical tools and resources to calculate and reduce their environmental impact, as well as to design and implement sustainability plans.
These are the main objectives of the project:
Learn key concepts about climate change, its main causes and consequences.
Understand the environmental impact of museum activity, including the calculation and mitigation of the carbon footprint.
Provide staff with tools and resources to integrate environmental sustainability in museums through the design of action plans.
Bridging the gap between institutional environmental policies and the urgent need to act on climate change by providing museums with new competencies.
Strengthen the network of museums, sharing experiences and comparing good sustainable practices.
In its first edition, which has the financial support of the Provincial Council of Tarragona, MUSA will train the technical staff of 10 museums in the province of Tarragona (Catalonia) through the course "Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability in Museums".
