Conference Review: ”Green Museum Summit“ organised by MuseumNext

Abstract

An Inspiring Conference on how Museums can get the Ball Roling to Save the Earth. A virtual format was a fitting setting for an international conference including the adjective “green” in the title as no flights were necessary to get together for the three days from the 28th to the 30th of March 2022. One might ask how the footprint of a virtual conference compares to that of a “real life” conference and indeed the question came up. A study published in 2021 showed that a one-day, six-hour virtual conference produced about 1,324 kg of carbon dioxide emissions (Faber 2021). The flights alone for the same event would have produced 66 times more emissions than the entire online conference (Faber 2021). So even though the impact of a virtual conference is much less than that of an in-person conference, it does still produce emissions. During the Green Museum Summit this question was posed to Michael Peter Edson, a digital strategist, his answer was “make it count”.

Keywords

• review
• newest era
• conference
• environment