‘It looked like we were at sea’: UK River and Rowing Museum faces up to climate threat
by Jamie Grierson from Environment | The Guardian on (#6JWG2)
Near flooding of Henley-on-Thames building prompts decision to tell the story of climate crisis
From the reconstructed riverside of The Wind in the Willows to an historic Georgian rowboat used in the inaugural Oxford-Cambridge race, the exhibits at the River and Rowing Museum celebrate the importance of British rivers.
But the award-winning building in Henley-on-Thames - designed by the modernist architect David Chipperfield - is facing a significant threat from the very river beside which it resides.
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