When Bob Perry took over as executive director of the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation in Waltham, Mass., he wanted to change the museum's perspective on industry.
"When I started at the Charles River Museum, there was no talk about the fact that rivers and streams and groundwater are polluted, or about excess carbon in the atmosphere due to irresponsible industrial waste," he tells the International Business Times.
"We know now that coal is terrible for the environment and has killed a lot of people, whether indirectly through environmental damage or directly through miners breathing coaldust."
To that end, the museum has launched Course Correctors, an exhibition that reframes industry as a whole, from its positive aspects to its negative ones.
"Typically, museums glorify their subject matterwhether it's an artifact or an industry or a tooland talk about all the good things it did and all the positives that it represents," Perry says.
"But that's not entirely realistic.
Climate change is our greatest forward-looking challenge right now, and that is, in large part, because of industry.
As a museum of industry, we must own that."
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