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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Miranda Massie, Director of the Climate Museum
4:26:53
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Miranda Massie, Director of the Climate Museum, testified about the organization's growth since 2018 and its future plans. She highlighted the museum's contributions to New York City's cultural landscape and its focus on climate action through arts and culture.
- The Climate Museum will have a permanent home in 2029 as a cultural anchor on the Far West Side.
- Massie requested $100,000 in speaker funds to establish eligibility for future city capital funding.
- The museum aims to use arts and culture to promote civic engagement on climate issues.
Miranda Massie
4:26:53
Chair Brennan, chair Rivera, I wanna join my colleagues in thanking you all for your leadership on culture and your civic leadership for all New Yorkers.
4:27:04
It's very much noted and appreciated, especially now.
4:27:08
This is a time when we need local leadership and when we need cultural leadership.
4:27:12
We need leadership that sounds in culture, which has historically been and continues to be a real strength here in New York City.
4:27:19
My name is Miranda Massey, and I'm the director of the Climate Museum, which is a pretty new member of New York City's cultural community.
4:27:26
We got started in 2018.
4:27:28
Achar Brannen, you were one of the members who supported us early on.
4:27:32
Thank you again for that.
4:27:33
And thanks largely to the Department of Cultural Affairs and the engagement and support of different members of city council, we were able to make it through the pandemic as a fledgling organization.
4:27:45
And we've, in the brief time that we've been doing public programming, presented hundreds of public events and 17 different exhibitions, many with esteemed partners who are represented in the testimony today from across the city in every borough.
4:28:01
And we've gotten to a point where we're gonna have a permanent home in 2029 as the cultural anchor of a new development on the Far West Side.
4:28:08
And most of the capital requirements associated with that permanent home will be covered by our real estate partners, Moynihan, Boston Properties, and BRP.
4:28:20
But some of them will need to step up on ourselves.
4:28:24
And so I wanna elevate for your attention $100,000 speaker request that we've made strategically to start to establish eligibility for requesting capital funds from the city in the future down the road.
4:28:39
Because of course, while the property that we're gonna be located on is owned by New York State, our heart lies very much with New York City, and we want to partner with the city in creating the work that we're gonna be presenting to the community of New York City.
4:28:57
And the fundamental impulse of that work, just to close, is to use the arts and culture to let everybody know about all the meaningful civic actions they can take in relation to climate and all the ways it's touching our lives.
4:29:12
So we are kind of at the intersection of New York City's climate leadership and our cultural leadership.
4:29:17
And again, we wanna thank you for putting us at that nexus point.
4:29:21
Thank you all.