Portraits on Climate and Health: Dreams We Carry

Open through early 2025

Now Open

Included with any admission.
Floor 1, Ellen V. Futter Gallery

Museum visitors walk past the larger-than-life photographic portraits that are mounted on all of the walls within the Ellen Futter Gallery.
Alvaro Keding/© AMNH
How is climate change reshaping our lives—and what are the stories of transformation and dreams of a healthier future we carry with us?

For three days in September, the Inside Out Photobooth truck was stationed just outside of the Museum, inviting the public to have their portrait taken and share their response to this question in anticipation of Climate Week NYC. 

Now, visitors can see more than 150 of these large-scale portraits and explore personal narratives of climate change in this physical installation at the Museum, which also features portraits of Indigenous land stewards and Museum scientists. 

Inside Out Project team member pulls an oversized photographic print from an opening in the side of a photobooth truck. The InsideOut Photobooth Action took place September 9-11.
Daniel Kim/© AMNH
Exhibitions team member stands on a lift to hang larger-than-life photo portraits on the walls lining the Ellen Futter Gallery. 181 large-scale portraits were installed in the Ellen V. Futter Gallery ahead of Climate Week NYC.
Alvaro Keding/© AMNH

Use interactive tablets or your smartphones to listen to personal narratives or view an online gallery of all 736 photos and 175 testimonies captured, available on the Inside Out Project’s webpage. 

Visit during Climate Week NYC to see a second installation of portraits, projected in a rotating moscaic in the Kenneth C. Griffin Exploration Atrium in the Museum's Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation.

Larger-than-life portraits line the walls and doorways of the Museum's Ellen Futter Gallery.
Alvaro Keding/© AMNH

 

Portraits on Climate and Health: Dreams We Carry is a group action installation of the Inside Out Project. This installation is part of Canopy, Wellcome’s citizen art and science festival, bringing health to the heart of Climate Week NYC.