As part of our 2021 ‘Museum of Rapid Transition’ programme, we designed three projects to coincide with Scotland’s hosting of the UN Climate Change Conference – COP26 – in Glasgow at the beginning of November. Turning Points was one of them.
All inspired by the natural and cultural heritage of the Ecomuseum, the projects aim to both mark this very historic event locally and create experiences that help our communities and visitors take rapid climate action and transition to more regenerative ways of living.
The Ecomuseum believes that engaging people with their heritage has huge, currently under utilised potential to help people build more regenerative and resilient lifestyles and mobilise climate action in two primary ways. They are a knowledge & learning resource which can help contextualise what is happening and develop skills and mitigation strategies that build adaptive capacity and they are a participative force which can bring people together, challenge the status quo and create spaces both physically and in our minds to imagine that anything is possible.
TURNING POINTS is one of these projects. A 50 metre long 2 metre high timeline of 20,000 years of climate change in this part of Scotland it was exhibited outside in the centre of the historic town of Alyth in the Ecomuseum.
You can view the ‘scroll’ of the timeline here. And, if you happen to be in Alyth (2024), you can still see the original exhibition panels, which are now in the Millhaugh site near Alyth Parish Church.
