Can New York's Climate Museum save the planet?

It may well be able to - but it can't do it alone. Museums around the world must stop dumbing down science and put education before entertainment

Can a museum help to save the planet? Is it possible to promote solutions to the human-caused warming of global climates through interactive displays, 3D movies, a gift shop and all the other methods of the modern museum?

That's what the Climate Museum Launch Project hopes. This week, the Board of Regents of New York State gave it a five-year provisional charter to create a climate museum in New York City. Soon, tourists could be supplementing trips to Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum with a troubling, or perhaps inspiring, visit to a museum full of climate-related exhibits. The plan is to focus on "solutions", reports the New York Times. A design for the building has even been proposed by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson.