Events

Since time immemorial, the salmon have been sacred to the identities, traditions, and cultural lifeways of Alaska Native peoples. Today, both the salmon and the people that steward them are imperiled by the toxic effects of mineral extraction and industrial logging, and impacted communities are fighting back.

This exhibition features a 3,000 pound killer whale (orca) totem carved by the House of Tears Carvers and an award-winning multi-channel film installation that tells the story of the environmental emergency through the figure of the killer whale. It also tells the story of the leadership of Native Nations in protecting the Salish Sea, the orcas, the salmon, and our collective future.

The Natural History Museum is pleased to take part Hlk’yak’ii: To Start A Fire, a group exhibition at the Haida Gwaii Museum that aims to facilitate and promote sovereign and sustainable solutions to energy independence and human resilience in the face of climate change. 

This event explores socio-environmental imagination as resistance to the advance of neo-extractivist policies. Featuring artists and environmental justice activists working in North and Latin America, including Steve Lyons, Research Director at The Natural History Museum.

Join us for a virtual exhibition, discussion, and interactive digital experience featuring artists Favianna Rodriguez and NHM Director Beka Economopoulos from the climate anthology The World We Need.