Our museum exhibitions aim to shape the field of Planetary Health while making complex topics accessible to the public and engaging them with wicked problems. Partnering with the Deutsches Museum and BIOTOPIA Lab Naturkundemuseum Bayern, we emphasise equal collaboration between academic and non-academic partners in the conception, implementation, and evaluation of our exhibitions. Our key learnings from the evaluations are valuable not only for museum staff but also for interested individuals from both science communication practice and research who wish to explore museums as a medium themselves. Particularly in the field of Planetary Health, the exchange is highly interdisciplinary, resulting in many exciting and thematically diverse exhibitions. In the following section we are presenting three of our past and future exhibitions.
Inflation, the Planet, and You – Deutsches Museum
This exhibition examined inflation – its measurement, causes, and impacts on both global and local scales. It explored the connections between the financial system and environmental issues, illustrating how inflation affects daily life and climate change. The exhibition questioned whether inflation is always a problem or if it can drive positive change.
For more information please visit: Deutsches Museum website or contact: Fabienne Will
En-ROADS: Shaping Climate – Deutsches Museum
This interactive experience featured the En-ROADS simulator, allowing participants to create climate scenarios by adjusting factors that influence global temperature. The exhibition assessed necessary actions for survival and managing climate change impacts for future generations.
For more information please contact: Fabienne Will
Planetary Health – One Planet. One Health. Our Future – Deutsches Museum
In this exhibition (dt. “Planetary Health – Am Puls von Mensch und Planet”), the central theme of Planetary Health will be illustrated through various scene-based design and content elements, such as air and climate, biosphere, water, landscape, and nutrition, all interconnected through a playful narrative in the form of an interactive game.
For more information please contact: Sebastian Brumann
Heat Emergency Call – Deutsches Museum / Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg
The interactive exhibition element “Hitzenotruf” (Heat Emergency Call) is part of the larger “Planetary Health – One Planet. One Health. Our Future” exhibition, which will be presented at the Deutsches Museum in Munich in 2026. It is designed as a museum-based escape game, in which visitors take on a detective role, search for clues, solve puzzles, and interactively answer questions about heatwaves, heat protection, and Planetary Health.
A first prototype of “Hitzenotruf” was developed and tested and evaluated at the Deutsches Museum, where the pilot evaluation showed high engagement, strong learning effects, and very positive feedback on its interactive and investigative format.
From May to August 2025, a further developed version of the interactive experience was on display at the Umweltbildungszentrum Augsburg (UBZ). Designed as an escape-game-style detective mission, the experience invites visitors to investigate a heat-related emergency and uncover how extreme heat affects health in urban environments. It was also professionally filmed and transformed into an interactive 3D tour, allowing visitors to explore the heat emergency scenario online. You can find the 3D experience here and a german teaser down below:
