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I Remember Water. A global digital exhibition to explore memories of our relationship with water

A new Call has been launched by the Global Network of Water Museums (WAMU-NET) to start cooperating with water museums, libraries, and public and private archives with the purpose of highlighting the value of our past perceptions and emotional links towards water.

Water memories, whether they are sensory or emotional, short-term, or long-term, material or immaterial, are fundamental to our existence as individuals and as collective societies. 

As we reflect on alternative pathways towards sustainable and equitable water access, use and governance, and SDGs implementation, the Global Network of Water Museums (WAMU-NET) invites contributions that recall our past water memories stressing the emotional side that water stirs: joy / struggle / life & death / respect / sacred / profane, etc.

Water museums archive the memories of humanity’s relationship with water. For this reason, members of WAMU-NET are invited to contribute to a digital exhibition that shares the memories of people’s relationship with water, to be launched on World Water Day 2022.

Water museums around the world are public repositories of our fluid heritage. However, if we are to address our global water challenges then we need to find new ways to connect people to their water heritage and to museums so that we can build empathy with a new ‘culture of water’, and stimulate water wisdom.
Contributions, including photographs, archival images and artworks, will only be accepted from WAMU-NET members (individuals, artists and museums) and must be submitted digitally by December 20, 2021.

For more details, please visit the dedicated web page here.

Image courtesy: Vaastu Vidhaan, Mumbai ‘Broken or Parched’, 2020