摘要：Climate change as a complex, scientific, cultural, ideological, and transnationalissue poses a new set of challenges for museums and science centres asplaces to inform, and as information sources in debates and decision processes.In this paper, I draw on quantitative and qualitative research from the AustralianResearch Council funded Linkage project, Hot Science, Global Citizens: theagency of the museum sector in climate change interventions, to interrogate thepotentialities for institutions to operate meaningfully and in new ways incomplex media ecologies and dense mediations of political, social, scientificdiscourses, and expertize. In developing the concepts liquid governmentalitiesand liquid museums, I pose new leverage points for institutions to operatewithin these pluralistic and complex governmental assemblages from one ofthe production of science statements to reform behaviour, to systems of openpeer review and as places for facilitating complex reflexivity and creativedispositions for the future in the present
