Welcome to the Mobile Museum!

This is a resource for learning how to help develop eco-friendly, self-reliant, and sustainable environments in Florida.

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The Mobile Museum is an adaptable, eco-centric resource structure that endeavors to bring museum learning and engagement out of its institutional walls, and into the future of its surrounding community. By utilizing green spaces in and around existing museums, Mobile Museum educates and offers hands-on opportunities to learn more about what visitors can do to transform their home and community into a more eco-friendly, self-reliant, and sustainable environment.

Around the museum are different areas where visitors can observe non-invasive and native plants to their area that produce veggies to pick, fruits to pluck, and plants to pollinate. Our goal is to equip museum staff with the knowledge and appropriate resources to offer to their visitors, donors, and community at large. We connect the museum with different local organizations already working in sustainability and farming, businesses who offer materials and resources, and provide a platform that the public can implement into their specific surroundings.

Museums are synonymous with education, adventure, wonder, and curiosity -
why should that end when you walk out of the front doors?

By working with Mobile Museum the greenspace museum experience can be packed up and sent home with visitors via their Mobile-Maker-Kit. In working with so many members, visitors, donors, local organizations and businesses the museum acts as a conduit for positive change and remains a steadfast sustainable hub within a city.

Mobile-Maker-Kit

There are many ways to translate your greenspace experience from the museum grounds, to your urban lifestyle. In the Mobile-Maker-Kit’s the museum teams up with local organizations and businesses to supply visitors with everything they need to begin their own space-optimized gardens, as well as all information needed regarding composting, recipes to go with their native plant options, workshops and tips for further community engagement.

Here’s one example we made for the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, FL.

Seeds

Beautyberries (jam recipe included, leaves also help in repelling mosquitoes)
Chile Piquin (salsa recipe included)
Rosemary
Orach, French Spinach

Biodegradable potting cups

One included with pack, instructions and resources to make more are included
Here we worked with the local university paper, The Alligator, to obtain recycled newspapers to make the biodegradable pots

Vertical Garden resources

Here we worked with local business, The Repurpose Project, to hold workshops, give demos, and illustrate how to transform used, recycled material into space-optimized vertical gardens.

Compost Starter Pack

Guides on what to and not to compost
Local organizations to drop off compost
Resources on how to utilize compost at home