Have we given Heaven Away? New exhibition on the Environment Opens!

The museum’s major annual exhibition of the year ‘Costing the Earth: Bath’s Industrialised Environment’ opened to a packed museum at its official opening on June 27th. The project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, is part of the Museum’s ‘See Your Own City First’ initiative and looks at how the environment has been compromised by modern living, working and in the case of Bath, three hundred years of industrialised leisure! We worked with local community groups, organic farmers and rewilders to create the display on ten cardboard cubes.

From noise pollution to visual pollution, atmospheric to wate, we are familiar with the story, but the exhibition also concentrates on how in the city we, as much as we can, reversing the damage with rewilding, traffic calming and a greater appreciation of our surroundings. The exhibition is on until November 1st and is free with admission to the museum!