A New DC ‘Museum’ Raises Awareness About the Looming Consequences of Extreme Weather

If you knew a major storm or fire was heading toward your home, what would you save? The blanket that your grandma knitted for you as a baby? A pop-up exhibit led , an artist and survivor of Hurricane Helene, asks that question of visitors. Built in a shipping container-sized space, the exhibit at Constitution Gardens on the National Mall brings together artifacts and stories from survivors of extreme weather events across the country to the political heart of the country.  “You can look at anyone’s face and you’ll never know what storm they have weathered, but you can look at an artifact from their house and you’ll immediately happened to it,” Hartman said in a video promoting the event. ICN Weekly Saturdays Our #1 delivers the week’s climate and energy news – our original stories and top headlines from around the web. Get ICN Weekly Inside Clean Energy Thursdays Dan Gearino’s habit-forming weekly take on how to understand the energy transformation reshaping our world. Get Inside Clean Energy Today’s Climate Tuesdays A once-a-week digest of the most pressing climate-, written . Get Today’s Climate Don’t miss a beat. Get a daily email of our original, groundbreaking stories written -winning reporters. Get ICN Sunday Morning Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and ICN reporters as they discuss one of the week’s top stories. Get ICN Sunday Morning Justice & Health A digest of stories on the inequalities that worsen the impacts of climate change on vulnerable communities. S. map of extreme weather events in the last two years that caused over $1 million in damages and respective news headlines hangs on one wall of the museum. Next to the map is a rectangular glass display case featuring artifacts such as broken household utensils and asthma inhalers, and a small table with handheld fans and pamphlets from the coalition. Wills said the people whose artifacts and stories are shown in the exhibit “could be any of us.” Kitchen utensils from a home burned during the 2018 Woosley Fire in California were displayed at the exhibit. Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Climate News A map displayed in the pop-up exhibit shows the headlines related to deadly extreme weather events around the U. Credit: Gabriel Matias Castilho/Inside Climate News While the U. S. is expected to face a more tame hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, conditions in the West, as a result of widespread drought and light snowpack in mountainous areas, have wildfire experts particularly worried about this year’s fire season.  At the first scheduled discussion about extreme heat, held in a tent beside the main exhibit space, Rep.