Who Made It Possible
The Only Local Toolkit was generously funded by MetLife Foundation in partnership with the Association of Children’s Museums as part of the Promising Practice Replication Award presented to Madison Children’s Museum in 2011. This award made it possible to expand Madison Children’s Museum’s sustainable exhibit design website, GreenExhibits.org, to include a more comprehensive guide to sustainability practices that focus on working locally. The Only Local Toolkit addresses more institution-wide strategies that focus on deepening sustainability and community impact through working almost exclusively with local people, products, processes and content.
GreenExhibits.org was also originally funded by MetLife Foundation in partnership with the Association of Children’s Museums as part of the Promising Practice Replication Award presented to Madison Children’s Museum in 2004 so that Madison’s sustainable exhibit design knowledge could be shared within the field. We are honored to be able to enhance the website with this new addition. Both the new Only Local Toolkit and GreenExhibits.org are the culmination of more than 15 years of research, ecological thinking and idea gathering that would not have been possible without the enormous and repeated generosity of ACM and MetLife Foundation, as well as our numerous mentors, teachers and colleagues along the way. The site is designed, developed and maintained by Madison Children’s Museum.