Green Museum - 2nd Edition by Sarah S Brophy & Elizabeth Wylie (Paperback)

About the Book

The Green Museum remains the leading handbook for museums seeking to learn ways to implement environmentally sustainable practices at their institutions. This new edition features updated standards, techniques, and new case studies to help achieve these goals.

Book Synopsis

The Green Museum remains the leading handbook for museums seeking to learn ways to implement environmentally sustainable practices at their institutions. This new edition features updated standards, techniques, and new case studies to help achieve these goals.

Review Quotes

Kudos on the second edition of The Green Museum, a pioneering book on creating meaningful sustainability. Packed with even more information and case studies, Brophy and Wylie are expert guides to a greener path.

The Green Museum is a must-have comprehensive guide, filled with examples and resources for anyone in a position to bring positive change to a museum, zoo, aquarium, recreational park or educational facility. An essential read, not only for sustainability coordinators or facility managers, but for environmental educators, interpreters, designers and curators. The updates in this second edition make this book relevant in the fast changing world of green technology standards and certification.

About the Author

Sarah Brophy, LEED AP EBOM, is principal at bMuse: Sustainable Museums, a consultancy providing Integrated sustainability services including: fund-raising support; green team management; sustainability audits; operational enhancements; and strategy, for museums and cultural nonprofits.

Elizabeth Wylie LEED AP BD+C is trained as an art historian and spent 20 years in the museum field as a curator and director and more recently was engaged in business development for architects. She is principal at WYLIE projects, a consultancy providing strategy, marketing, development, and sustainability planning for museum, cultural and preservation organizations and for the A/E/C industry.