From Ambition to Action: Reducing the Environmental Impact of Exhibitions & Loans, 21 October 2025, online via Zoom
Join this interactive virtual training to learn how to use the Rethinking Touring Exhibitions Toolkit to reduce the environmental impact of exhibitions and loans. You’ll discover practical strategies, explore a real-life case study, and gain confidence in making environmentally informed decisions. The session covers all key toolkit areas, from partnerships and procurement to transport, design, and advocacy, to show you what’s within your sphere of influence and how to take action. Limited to 24 participants for maximum interaction, this training will leave you empowered to drive positive change in your organisation and the wider museum sector.
Led by The Exhibitions Group, this training will:
- use the Rethinking Touring Exhibitions Toolkit as its basis
- help museums to reduce the environmental impact of exhibitions and loans project
- enable museums to recognise their influence by embedding environmental responsibility into their work
- support museums to know how to work more collaboratively with colleagues and contractors towards agreed sustainability goals and ambitions
You can download the Toolkit from TEG’s Environmental Responsibility Hub.
Pre-Workshop Introduction to the Toolkit
In this short 10 minute video presentation, Dana Andrew, Professional Development Manager at The Exhibitions Group, introduces the Rethinking Touring Exhibitions Toolkit and gives a brief overview of the Developing Sustainable Exhibitions and Loans workshop. You can access the video here. Please take a look at it to prepare for the session.
Pre. Session Task: In advance of the training, we ask you if possible to calculate the carbon footprint of a recent UK loan into your organisation or a loan out from your organisation. Please choose a single object. If you are already registered with GCC, please use the Gallery Climate Coalition Calculator. If you are not registered with GCC but are registered with Julie’s Bicycle, please use their calculator (someone in your organisation is likely already registered for the Creative Climate Tools). If you are not registered with either GCC or Julie’s Bicycle, please use the STiCH carbon calculator. If you have any questions about this pre-training task, or require any assistance, please contact seminars@theexhibitionsgroup.org.uk