Event Description
This major exhibition examines topics around the climate and biodiversity crisis by reuniting collections from the Portland Society of Natural History, one of the nation’s earliest natural history museums. Discover how natural history informs the past, present, and future through collections old and new. Supported by scientists and cultural specialists from communities across Maine, CODE RED focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity. The exhibition is based on the United Nation's Code Red for Humanity report. That 2021 report demonstrates how human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land, causing widespread, extreme, and rapid changes. This exhibition unites selected items from on eof the earliest natural history museums in the US with historic objects, photographs, and contemporary artworks to open dialogues about how humans can impact climate and biodiversity. CODE RED also examines Indigenous Science and Wabanaki place-based understandings. Adapted over millennia, these ways of knowing inform decisions about sustainable practices in tandem with Western scientific methods. The exhibit runs from March 17 - December 30, 2023 at the Maine Historical Society. Museum hours: Wednesdays - Saturdays, 10:00am - 5:00 pm.

Attendance
General public

Registration Link
https://www.mainehistory.org/museum_current.shtml#codered

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Contact
Kathleen Neumann
kneumann@mainehistory.org
https://www.mainehistory.org/

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