Museum of Water is a collection of publicly donated water that tells stories of the people and places it comes from. It is an invitation to ponder our precious liquid and how we use it.
Water is our most basic need but also our most overlooked, throwaway substance. We claim kinship with every water metaphor, yet in our actions we defend against it, squeezing and pumping, chlorinating and piping, soothed by our certainty that it will pour from our taps at a twist of our fingers.
It is time to re-examine our connection with the water that surrounds us, to develop a new relationship: to consider what is precious about it and how we are using it now in order to explore how we might care for it in the future. We are all implicated in this.
Museum of Water has travelled to over 50 different sites worldwide, been visited by over 60,000 people, and currently holds over 1,000 bottles in the collection. In celebration of our access to fresh water, always running alongside the Museum is our Water Bar, a free pop-up outdoor bar serving fresh water from the nearest source.
Begun in 2013, in a time of relative plenty in Britain, Museum of Water travels across the world gathering collections of water for future generations to consider. The collection holds ghost water and bad dream water, water from the last ice age, a melted snowman as well as Norwegian spit, three types of urine and two different breaths. It holds water from Lourdes, Mecca and the Ganges, Mediterranean sea beside a refugee camp on Lesvos and water from an aboriginal grandmother remembering the stolen generation and the disappearing wetlands of Western Australia.
Explore our Collection online, listen to donors’ speaking about their water, keep an eye out for future events and bring your own water.
Choose what water is precious to you.
Help us build a collection of water for future generations to enjoy.
What water will you keep?
🐜This photo shows a drop of water on a tree leaf, with ants gathered to drink. They organized themselves into 4 groups of 3 to maintain balance of the water and to prevent the leaf from tilting ...over. They are cooperating and dividing the water equally. NATURE is AMAZING.
Museum of Water Ontario launches an interactive and virtual experience on 14 October 2021.
Museum of Water began in the UK as a collection of individually sourced contributions of water that... told stories of the people and places it came from, intimate and institutional reconsiderations of this precious substance. It has since travelled to The Netherlands and Western Australia. In this latest iteration, undertaken in collaboration with a collective of Indigenous artists in the place we now call Canada, the artwork strives to simultaneously acknowledge, sit with, move with, and evolve with the layers of past and present colonial history and contexts embedded within both the water and land we rely on for survival. The museum is an invitation to simultaneously enter into a conversation, and gesture towards building a collective capacity and stamina for action in support of and in service to water, precious water knowledges, and water access.
Responding to one of the most critical issues of our days, Museum of Water questions and cherishes the interconnections between the human and non-human worlds. The interactive and virtual experience launches on 14 October 2021 and will continue across 2022.
At this time, given the ongoing climate where this place now known as Canada continues to have non-generative relations with Indigenous peoples, the land, and the waters, the collective would like to remain anonymous in solidarity with the many Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves as part of the Colonial project, who are only now beginning their return home.
Show your support by donating to Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Museum of Water Ontario is commissioned by @luminatofestival Toronto and produced with @artsadm (UK). For more information please visit wwwmuseumofwater.co.uk or keep up to date with Luminato Festival live via the link - http://onlineluminatofestival.neme.tv/
Museum of Water Ontario image by Clara Peltier
#museumofwaterontarion #pastandpresent #colonialhistory
#human #nonhuman #relations #thelandandthewaters #climate #context #luminatofestival #artsadmin #indianresidentialschoolsurvivorssociety #IRSS #supportIndigenouschildren
Museum of Water Ontario launches an interactive and virtual experience on 14 October 2021.
Museum of Water began in the UK as a collection of individually sourced contributions of water that... told stories of the people and places it came from, intimate and institutional reconsiderations of this precious substance. It has since travelled to The Netherlands and Western Australia. In this latest iteration, undertaken in collaboration with a collective of Indigenous artists in the place we now call Canada, the artwork strives to simultaneously acknowledge, sit with, move with, and evolve with the layers of past and present colonial history and contexts embedded within both the water and land we rely on for survival. The museum is an invitation to simultaneously enter into a conversation, and gesture towards building a collective capacity and stamina for action in support of and in service to water, precious water knowledges, and water access.
Responding to one of the most critical issues of our days, Museum of Water questions and cherishes the interconnections between the human and non-human worlds. The interactive and virtual experience launches on 14 October 2021 and will continue across 2022.
At this time, given the ongoing climate where this place now known as Canada continues to have non-generative relations with Indigenous peoples, the land, and the waters, the collective would like to remain anonymous in solidarity with the many Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves as part of the Colonial project, who are only now beginning their return home.
Show your support by donating to Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Museum of Water Ontario is commissioned by @luminatofestival Toronto and produced with @artsadm (UK). For more information please visit wwwmuseumofwater.co.uk or keep up to date with Luminato Festival live via the link - http://onlineluminatofestival.neme.tv/
Museum of Water Ontario image by Clara Peltier
#museumofwaterontarion #pastandpresent #colonialhistory
#human #nonhuman #relations #thelandandthewaters #climate #context #luminatofestival #artsadmin #indianresidentialschoolsurvivorssociety #IRSS #supportIndigenouschildren
Museum of Water Ontario launches an interactive and virtual experience on 14 October 2021.
Museum of Water began in the UK as a collection of individually sourced contributions of water that... told stories of the people and places it came from, intimate and institutional reconsiderations of this precious substance. It has since travelled to The Netherlands and Western Australia. In this latest iteration, undertaken in collaboration with a collective of Indigenous artists in the place we now call Canada, the artwork strives to simultaneously acknowledge, sit with, move with, and evolve with the layers of past and present colonial history and contexts embedded within both the water and land we rely on for survival. The museum is an invitation to simultaneously enter into a conversation, and gesture towards building a collective capacity and stamina for action in support of and in service to water, precious water knowledges, and water access.
Responding to one of the most critical issues of our days, Museum of Water questions and cherishes the interconnections between the human and non-human worlds. The interactive and virtual experience launches on 14 October 2021 and will continue across 2022.
At this time, given the ongoing climate where this place now known as Canada continues to have non-generative relations with Indigenous peoples, the land, and the waters, the collective would like to remain anonymous in solidarity with the many Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves as part of the Colonial project, who are only now beginning their return home.
Show your support by donating to Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Museum of Water Ontario is commissioned by @luminatofestival Toronto and produced with @artsadm (UK). For more information please visit wwwmuseumofwater.co.uk or keep up to date with Luminato Festival live via the link - http://onlineluminatofestival.neme.tv/
Museum of Water Ontario image by Clara Peltier
#museumofwaterontarion #pastandpresent #colonialhistory
#human #nonhuman #relations #thelandandthewaters #climate #context #luminatofestival #artsadmin #indianresidentialschoolsurvivorssociety #IRSS #supportIndigenouschildren
Museum of Water Ontario launches an interactive and virtual experience on 14 October 2021.
Museum of Water began in the UK as a collection of individually sourced contributions of water that... told stories of the people and places it came from, intimate and institutional reconsiderations of this precious substance. It has since travelled to The Netherlands and Western Australia. In this latest iteration, undertaken in collaboration with a collective of Indigenous artists in the place we now call Canada, the artwork strives to simultaneously acknowledge, sit with, move with, and evolve with the layers of past and present colonial history and contexts embedded within both the water and land we rely on for survival. The museum is an invitation to simultaneously enter into a conversation, and gesture towards building a collective capacity and stamina for action in support of and in service to water, precious water knowledges, and water access.
Responding to one of the most critical issues of our days, Museum of Water questions and cherishes the interconnections between the human and non-human worlds. The interactive and virtual experience launches on 14 October 2021 and will continue across 2022.
At this time, given the ongoing climate where this place now known as Canada continues to have non-generative relations with Indigenous peoples, the land, and the waters, the collective would like to remain anonymous in solidarity with the many Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves as part of the Colonial project, who are only now beginning their return home.
Show your support by donating to Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Museum of Water Ontario is commissioned by @luminatofestival Toronto and produced with @artsadm (UK). For more information please visit wwwmuseumofwater.co.uk or keep up to date with Luminato Festival live via the link - http://onlineluminatofestival.neme.tv/
Museum of Water Ontario image by Clara Peltier
#museumofwaterontarion #pastandpresent #colonialhistory
#human #nonhuman #relations #thelandandthewaters #climate #context #luminatofestival #artsadmin #indianresidentialschoolsurvivorssociety #IRSS #supportIndigenouschildren
Museum of Water Ontario launches an interactive and virtual experience on 14 October 2021.
Museum of Water began in the UK as a collection of individually sourced contributions of water that... told stories of the people and places it came from, intimate and institutional reconsiderations of this precious substance. It has since travelled to The Netherlands and Western Australia. In this latest iteration, undertaken in collaboration with a collective of Indigenous artists in the place we now call Canada, the artwork strives to simultaneously acknowledge, sit with, move with, and evolve with the layers of past and present colonial history and contexts embedded within both the water and land we rely on for survival. The museum is an invitation to simultaneously enter into a conversation, and gesture towards building a collective capacity and stamina for action in support of and in service to water, precious water knowledges, and water access.
Responding to one of the most critical issues of our days, Museum of Water questions and cherishes the interconnections between the human and non-human worlds. The interactive and virtual experience launches on 14 October 2021 and will continue across 2022.
At this time, given the ongoing climate where this place now known as Canada continues to have non-generative relations with Indigenous peoples, the land, and the waters, the collective would like to remain anonymous in solidarity with the many Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves as part of the Colonial project, who are only now beginning their return home.
Show your support by donating to Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Museum of Water Ontario is commissioned by @luminatofestival Toronto and produced with @artsadm (UK). For more information please visit wwwmuseumofwater.co.uk or keep up to date with Luminato Festival live via the link - http://onlineluminatofestival.neme.tv/
Museum of Water Ontario image by Clara Peltier
#museumofwaterontarion #pastandpresent #colonialhistory
#human #nonhuman #relations #thelandandthewaters #climate #context #luminatofestival #artsadmin #indianresidentialschoolsurvivorssociety #IRSS #supportIndigenouschildren
Museum of Water Ontario launches an interactive and virtual experience on 14 October 2021.
Museum of Water began in the UK as a collection of individually sourced contributions of water that... told stories of the people and places it came from, intimate and institutional reconsiderations of this precious substance. It has since travelled to The Netherlands and Western Australia. In this latest iteration, undertaken in collaboration with a collective of Indigenous artists in the place we now call Canada, the artwork strives to simultaneously acknowledge, sit with, move with, and evolve with the layers of past and present colonial history and contexts embedded within both the water and land we rely on for survival. The museum is an invitation to simultaneously enter into a conversation, and gesture towards building a collective capacity and stamina for action in support of and in service to water, precious water knowledges, and water access.
Responding to one of the most critical issues of our days, Museum of Water questions and cherishes the interconnections between the human and non-human worlds. The interactive and virtual experience launches on 14 October 2021 and will continue across 2022.
At this time, given the ongoing climate where this place now known as Canada continues to have non-generative relations with Indigenous peoples, the land, and the waters, the collective would like to remain anonymous in solidarity with the many Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves as part of the Colonial project, who are only now beginning their return home.
Show your support by donating to Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Museum of Water Ontario is commissioned by @luminatofestival Toronto and produced with @artsadm (UK). For more information please visit wwwmuseumofwater.co.uk or keep up to date with Luminato Festival live via the link - http://onlineluminatofestival.neme.tv/
Museum of Water Ontario image by Clara Peltier
#museumofwaterontarion #pastandpresent #colonialhistory
#human #nonhuman #relations #thelandandthewaters #climate #context #luminatofestival #artsadmin #indianresidentialschoolsurvivorssociety #IRSS #supportIndigenouschildren
Museum of Water Ontario launches an interactive and virtual experience on 14 October 2021.
Museum of Water began in the UK as a collection of individually sourced contributions of water that... told stories of the people and places it came from, intimate and institutional reconsiderations of this precious substance. It has since travelled to The Netherlands and Western Australia. In this latest iteration, undertaken in collaboration with a collective of Indigenous artists in the place we now call Canada, the artwork strives to simultaneously acknowledge, sit with, move with, and evolve with the layers of past and present colonial history and contexts embedded within both the water and land we rely on for survival. The museum is an invitation to simultaneously enter into a conversation, and gesture towards building a collective capacity and stamina for action in support of and in service to water, precious water knowledges, and water access.
Responding to one of the most critical issues of our days, Museum of Water questions and cherishes the interconnections between the human and non-human worlds. The interactive and virtual experience launches on 14 October 2021 and will continue across 2022.
At this time, given the ongoing climate where this place now known as Canada continues to have non-generative relations with Indigenous peoples, the land, and the waters, the collective would like to remain anonymous in solidarity with the many Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves as part of the Colonial project, who are only now beginning their return home.
Show your support by donating to Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Museum of Water Ontario is commissioned by @luminatofestival Toronto and produced with @artsadm (UK). For more information please visit wwwmuseumofwater.co.uk or keep up to date with Luminato Festival live via the link - http://onlineluminatofestival.neme.tv/
Museum of Water Ontario image by Clara Peltier
#museumofwaterontarion #pastandpresent #colonialhistory
#human #nonhuman #relations #thelandandthewaters #climate #context #luminatofestival #artsadmin #indianresidentialschoolsurvivorssociety #IRSS #supportIndigenouschildren
Museum of Water Ontario launches an interactive and virtual experience on 14 October 2021.
Museum of Water began in the UK as a collection of individually sourced contributions of water that... told stories of the people and places it came from, intimate and institutional reconsiderations of this precious substance. It has since travelled to The Netherlands and Western Australia. In this latest iteration, undertaken in collaboration with a collective of Indigenous artists in the place we now call Canada, the artwork strives to simultaneously acknowledge, sit with, move with, and evolve with the layers of past and present colonial history and contexts embedded within both the water and land we rely on for survival. The museum is an invitation to simultaneously enter into a conversation, and gesture towards building a collective capacity and stamina for action in support of and in service to water, precious water knowledges, and water access.
Responding to one of the most critical issues of our days, Museum of Water questions and cherishes the interconnections between the human and non-human worlds. The interactive and virtual experience launches on 14 October 2021 and will continue across 2022.
At this time, given the ongoing climate where this place now known as Canada continues to have non-generative relations with Indigenous peoples, the land, and the waters, the collective would like to remain anonymous in solidarity with the many Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves as part of the Colonial project, who are only now beginning their return home.
Show your support by donating to Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Museum of Water Ontario is commissioned by @luminatofestival Toronto and produced with @artsadm (UK). For more information please visit wwwmuseumofwater.co.uk or keep up to date with Luminato Festival live via the link - http://onlineluminatofestival.neme.tv/
Museum of Water Ontario image by Clara Peltier
#museumofwaterontarion #pastandpresent #colonialhistory
#human #nonhuman #relations #thelandandthewaters #climate #context #luminatofestival #artsadmin #indianresidentialschoolsurvivorssociety #IRSS #supportIndigenouschildren
