Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals

This document is intended to help empower museums, museum workers, museum networks and their partners to contribute to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It can be viewed at Curating Tomorrow’s website.

The document offers six steps, and seven key activities, that can be undertaken by most museums, museum workers, networks, funders and other stakeholders in museums in order to contribute to the SDGs. It is published by Curating Tomorrow, a consultancy for museums and the heritage sector, helping them draw on their unique resources to enhance their contributions to society and the natural environment, SDGs, climate action and nature conservation.

Some of the questions addressed in the document are:

• How are the SDGs relevant to museums?
• How do the seven suggested key activities contribute to the SDGs?
• How can museums play a part in achieving the SDGs?