‘How We Set up an Eco Mindset’ by Indrė Lelevičiūtė, MO Museum
By: Diane Drubay
Tags: Climate Action, Museum, Ecomindset, Extinction, Climate Change

‘How We Set up an Eco Mindset’ by Indrė Lelevičiūtė, MO Museum

At the conference Museums Facing Extinction, Indrė Lelevičiūtė, Communications Manager at MO Museum in Vilnius (Lithuania) explains that, when setting up an eco mindset, we have to remember the relevance of inclusion. She gave 5 short different examples of MO Museum’s everyday life.

Inclusiveness

Building and nurturing communities — It varies from MO Museums annual membership programme — MOdernists loyalty programme — to MO Museum benefactors and business clubs. Also, special programmes to teachers and a community of online subscribers. To facilitate this, an effort has been made at the MO Museum to digitize their entire collection and make it available free of charge wherever you are in the world.

— It varies from MO Museums annual membership programme — MOdernists loyalty programme — to MO Museum benefactors and business clubs. Also, special programmes to teachers and a community of online subscribers. To facilitate this, an effort has been made at the MO Museum to digitize their entire collection and make it available free of charge wherever you are in the world. 140 volunteers — A very important community to the museums that is renewed twice a year.

— A very important community to the museums that is renewed twice a year. Comfortable experience for all — MO Museum does everything to help people with disabilities feel comfortable in the museum spaces. MO tailors activities to accommodate all needs (for example, guided tours for senior citizens, parents with their little ones or tours for neighbours). MO Museum website provides free of charge content that can be accessed from anywhere.

— MO Museum does everything to help people with disabilities feel comfortable in the museum spaces. MO tailors activities to accommodate all needs (for example, guided tours for senior citizens, parents with their little ones or tours for neighbours). MO Museum website provides free of charge content that can be accessed from anywhere. Socially sensitive groups — Welcoming all the socially sensitive groups in the museum by providing an extensive discount system is also crucial for the MO Museum. Together with the British Council, MO Museum set up a programme to help the educators and members of the team go to socially vulnerable communities.

— Welcoming all the socially sensitive groups in the museum by providing an extensive discount system is also crucial for the MO Museum. Together with the British Council, MO Museum set up a programme to help the educators and members of the team go to socially vulnerable communities. Events that meet the expectations of different communities — The MO Museum also tries to ensure that activities and programmes are geared towards members of different communities. That is why the meetings include garden enthusiasts; they host picnics to talk about sustainability and our impact on the environment; have poetry readings, family Sundays, and so much more.

Indrė explained that MO Museum always tries to apply their eco-mindset. As a result, all their activities are practical in decreasing the environmental impact and highlighting the importance of sustainability as a topic in our local community. Speaking about the museum’s building, it’s a very compact building, it contains all the necessary elements to accommodate an institution and the spaces are multifunctional. Optimisation of space and functional flexibility contributes to the eco-friendliness of the building. The MO building occupies less than half of the land owned by MO. Moreover, almost a quarter of the site is dedicated to green space. Plants for the garden have been chosen following a natural style, selected specifically for their durability and longevity.

The eco-mindset is employed both in the technical and conceptual part while organizing exhibitions.