Ceredigion Museum has been announced as one of 12 museums, heritage and cultural partners across the UK to run events and activity focused on creating advocates for the planet, in partnership with the Natural History Museum (NHM), London.
The Fixing Our Broken Planet: Interconnected programme provides funding, displays, and access to scientists, to support activity which works with communities towards a more hopeful future.
As part of the project, a group of local young people has chosen to create a short film about the Dyfi Estuary. It’s an opportunity for them to amplify their own and other young people’s voices about what they value about the Dyfi Estuary and their fears and hopes for its future as the climate changes. The film will be displayed in Ceredigion Museum’s Archaeology Gallery, which will explore how local human habitation has always been shaped by the migration of plants, animals and people as the climate changed. It will also feature as part of the Changing Tides coastal adaptation handbook for the Dyfi being delivered in co-production with residents from the estuary.
Carrie Canham, Curator of Ceredigion Museum, said: “We’re excited to partner with Tir Canol and Common Cause Foundation to create this opportunity to work with young people from across the Dyfi region. This funding creates an important opportunity to focus on the voices of young people in the face of climate change in their own local area. We are very grateful to the Natural History Museum, Creative Minds and Prosper for providing us with this opportunity.
Tom Bevan, Head of National Programmes, Natural History Museum, said: “We’re proud to support the fantastic work our partners are doing to empower communities to connect with issues facing the natural world. Across the country, we interact with nature in different ways. This programme is perfectly placed to amplify stories from different communities and drive meaningful action for a future where people and planet thrive.”
Councillor Catrin M S Davies, Ceredigion Cabinet Member responsible for Culture, added: “As someone who lives not far from the river Dyfi, I’m very much looking forward to see the film and I’m sure it will be a great asset to the gallery.”
This programme is part of Fixing Our Broken Planet at the Natural History Museum, which includes the opening of a new permanent gallery, Fixing Our Broken Planet, in April 2025. The funding opportunity was made available to members of the Fixing Our Broken Planet: Community of Practice, a museum sector network established in September 2023 to create advocates for the planet. Over the coming years, it will continue to support 200+ organisations to connect communities at a local, national and global level with the science surrounding the planetary emergency to build a truly global advocacy movement.
