A Greenhouse Research Talk by Camille-Mary Sharp, Postdoctoral Associate at Western University (Ontario, Canada)
As cultural institutions worldwide slowly embrace climate responsibility, oil museums operate at a compelling point of tension: adapting to growing environmental reforms in the museum sector while remaining accountable to governmental, industrial, and local community stakeholders. In this presentation, Camille-Mary Sharp will share preliminary research and methodological reflections stemming from her comparative analysis of oil museums in Canada and Norway. Bridging recent findings from fieldwork at the Oil Museum of Canada (Oil Springs, Ontario) with critical questions emerging out of energy humanities and museum and preservation studies, this work questions how the practices of oil museums might enrich current approaches to sustainable museology while revealing the often-conflicting intersections of cultural work, industrial heritage, and petrocapitalism.
Camille-Mary Sharp (she/her), PhD, is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Visual Arts and Centre for Sustainable Curating at Western University (Ontario, Canada). She was previously a Faculty Fellow in the Program in Museum Studies at New York University, where she taught courses on museum activism and the history and theory of museums.Her research focuses on the relation between museums and resource extraction.