Press and Books
Miranda’s work has been featured in a range of outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and more. Her writing has been featured in Newsweek and in letters to The New York Times and The Guardian. Miranda has contributed chapters or interviews for several books. She is also available as a source.
7 People (and One Coyote) Who Made New York City a Better Place in 2024
“A lawyer by training who had previously worked fighting toxins in public schools, Miranda Massie devoted herself to establishing a climate museum in New York City, after Hurricane Sandy.”
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The first-ever climate museum in the US is welcoming visitors in NYC's Soho neighborhood
“The museum is welcoming visitors free of charge to its pop-up exhibit.”
A Lawyer Quit Her Job to Start a Climate Museum in New York
“Miranda Massie may not be the most obvious candidate to create a museum in New York City devoted to the subject of climate change.”
Miranda Massie — Director of the Climate Museum in NYC
“Miranda Massie, the director of the Climate Museum in NYC, strives to inspire action on the climate crisis through the arts and sciences.”
The Climate Museum is the first of its kind in the U.S. — and its founder is on a mission
“Miranda Massie founded the institution in 2015. Since then, she’s worked to elevate the intersection of art, science and climate action”
“Massie is thinking big, and thinking long-term, as in centuries.”
The Museum of Unnatural History
How the Climate Museum Hopes Art Will Spur Action
“Massie says that the creation of the museum—the first dedicated to climate in the United States—came in part from seeing the ‘superpowers’ of museums as cultural institutions with both high levels of public trust and popularity…”
A Trip to a Museum for Convincing Americans About Climate Change
“While activists, scientists, and divestment movements all have roles to play in scaling back carbon emissions, Massie says, she wants her museum to help push climate change into Americans’ everyday conversations.”
Miranda has contributed chapters or interviews for several books including:
The Future of the Art World: 40 Dialogues by Andras Szanto
Reimagining Museums for Climate Action edited by Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling
Art+Climate=Change II edited by Bronwyn Johnson and Kelly Gellatly
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference by Rebecca Huntley
Forthcoming in 2026: Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Mental Health by Judith Anderson
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Badullovich N, et al. (2025) Communicating about “The End of Fossil Fuel” in a museum setting: A mixed-methods investigation of the Climate Museum. PLOS Climate 4(2): e0000518.
Newell, J. (2020). Climate museums: powering action. Museum Management and Curatorship, 35(6), 599–617.
Golubchik, L. (2020). Exhibition Critique: Taking Action at The Climate Museum in New York City, NY. Exhibition, Spring 2020, 112-119.