We are currently undergoing renovations To learn more about our unique Chelsea location, please visit: www.home4water.org
History:
I love water. It is the
giver of our life. Its extraordinary physical properties allow
our world to function in all its transformational flowing
wonder.
The inspiring intent of the
museum was, in this quickly-evolving and unprecedented moment
in human history, to foster greater connection and response-ability
with water by our fellow New Yorkers/citizens/water
consumers/and most overreachingly human beings. This was my hope
when I commenced working on it in my free time in April. I soon
learned how timely a water museum is right now.
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Mission:
The Museum is an outreach educational
institute. We collect and bring to life the literatures on
topics treating the relationship of humans and water in our
environments in a historical perspective. We reach out to our
visitors, to tell the comprehensive, accessible and engaging
untold story of humans and water.
We
hope to convey wonder and beauty as well as to inform. The goal
of the museum is to entertain and educate about all wonders of
the world of water.
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When it comes to environmental
themes we hope to showcase brilliant solutions at the forefront
of today's thought.
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The
human interaction element is at our core as well. It compels our
visitors’ attention and there exists a so far untold story
of human interaction with water that we care to share.
Being housed in New York, we naturally also
favor to tribute a particular focus on New York's water history
leading to today's state of affairs. It would be a worthwhile
accomplishment if we bring more transparency to the water
systems around us.
Finally the direction
of the museum is such that we also will chart out some of the
forces and trends and possible future scenarios in our human
interaction with water.
We are currently undergoing renovations To learn more about our unique Chelsea location, please visit: www.home4water.org
How we do
it:
At the Museum of Water we use a variety of creative
means to achieve our mission. We use fun to impact joyfully to
our visitors, our volunteers, our staff, our partners, our board
members, and our management. We want to inspire love and
celebration of the museum's grand aims.
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Engaging all
the senses, aids learning and makes for remarkable experiences!
But not just the five senses of feeling, sight, hearing,
tasting, and smelling; Here we remember these other
sense-abilities additionally: the sense of humor, the sense of
response-ability, the sense of wonder, the sense of mastery. We
take glee at finding ways to engage our visitors more fully and
encouraging social interchange. For this reason many of our
exhibits are fully interactive and you must initiate the action
to experience it. We do build responsive learning systems but we
take the concept one further by encouraging participation in the
exhibit creation process from the visitors themselves.
We outreach directly to our visitors through
innovative museum exhibit programs and groups such as schools,
design teams, environmental groups and museums to
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exhibitions. We collaborate with private and public spheres of
influence.
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We want them
to take with them, experiences that they will talk about at home
and at work and that will allow a framework for deeper
understanding of water related subjects.
To do this we create our own interactive
exhibits, visually stunning works, and text that gets to the
heart of matters not often made visible. We create permanent
exhibits, and temporary shows, and even traveling exhibits. We
invite, incorporate and feature artists with unique work. And we
also seek out and welcome presentations that already exist
elsewhere and need a home like ours or wish to be presented at
the museum. We host workshops, and forums, we act as an
interchange by providing publications to partner and sponsor
organizations. We include text, audio content, models and visual
content as well as kinesthetic experiences.
A smattering taste of some of the possible
themes and subject areas touched in the exhibits will include:
water and life, tap water, rivers, watersheds, distribution,
scarcity, bottled water, water energy creation systems,
conservation efforts with our water bodies and resources,
privatization, unique physical properties of water, differing
cultural relationships with water, antibubbles, ecological
piping solutions, waste management and water treatment, water
sports, runoff, rituals involving water, crystal formation,
pollution, oceans, dams, bridges and their relationships to the
bodies they exist in, water and sound, regulation of water,
interconnection of water bodies, wave propagation.
We are currently undergoing renovations To learn more about our unique Chelsea location, please visit: www.home4water.org
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