Hello! This website offers a snapshot of Not An Alternative's history as a collective that works at the intersection of art, activism, and critical theory. We don't update it with any frequency. For the latest on what we're up to, please visit TheNaturalHistoryMuseum.org, where you'll...
This talk explores the politics that shape visual representations of nature, strategies for presenting scientific fact, and the responsibility of cultural institutions to respond to the climate crisis....
Current exhibitions and upcoming events by The Natural History Museum, a traveling museum and museum transformation project led by Not An Alternative. From New Orleans to New York to Melbourne, Australia, we're bringing the movement to transform museums to a city near you....
We are seeking a Senior Native Organizer to join us in our mission to transform museums of science and natural history. The successful candidate will work with our team to guide sympathetic museums toward becoming more effective allies of Native-led struggles to protect land, water,...
North American natural history museums have often had fraught relationships with Native Peoples. But a pop-up museum led in part by Native activists emphasizes “the sociopolitical forces that shape nature” and partners with other museums and institutions to raise awareness of environmental issues....
Collectives concerned with fossil fuels, labor, and decolonization are deploying institutions as targets and resources for radical political practice....
Is the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences a museum, or a PR front for the fossil fuel industry? This is the central question of “Mining the HMNS”, an exhibition by The Natural History Museum, at Project Row Houses this March - June. ...
Instead of treating the Democratic Party as some kind of authority with the power to co-opt our message, we should treat it like any street or park and occupy it....
Not An Alternative (NAA) is seeking a Fellow to assist with research and writing projects associated with our ongoing project The Natural History Museum--a mobile and pop-up museum that highlights the socio-political forces that shape nature, yet are excluded from traditional museums. The museum’s primary subject...