摘要:Social research underlines how the mass media frames and presentsenvironmental change and risk in ways that become contested cultural constructsembedded in deep ideological structures. While significant attention hasconcentrated on the mass media, less consideration has been given toexamining the role of museums and science centres in communicating thescience of climate change. The article looks at museums as cultural brokersin collaborative efforts around public understandings of climate change.Engaging with recent conceptualizations around citizens and public mediapractices, it proposes participatory design mechanisms through which themuseum sector can act as change-agents in fostering a new form of publicpedagogy that incorporates differing civic epistemologies around climatechange education and action