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Shipping container decorated to look like a row of giant books from the outside.
Empathy Museum's A Thousand and One Books at the London International Festival of Theatre in 2016.

The Empathy Museum is an art project that aims to help visitors look at the world through other people's eyes, using participatory art centred around storytelling and dialogue. As of May 2018, the museum also publishes a weekly podcast titled A Mile in My Shoes. The Empathy Museum was founded in 2015.

Background

The Empathy Museum does not have a permanent location. Its projects are each designed as temporary installations that travel to international locations. The Empathy Museum's offices are based in London, United Kingdom.

The Empathy Museum has created three projects since it was established in 2015: 1001 Books, Human Library and A Mile in My Shoes. The museum's projects are produced by Artsadmin.

Projects

A Thousand and One Books

A Thousand and One Books is a crowd-sourced collection of 1001 books. Each book in the "library" has been donated by "someone who loves that book and thinks that other people might love it too". Notable book donors include Jay Rayner, Kate Raworth, Lemn Sissay, Ian McKellan, Chris O'Dowd and Suzanne Moore[1]. The books can be taken out by the public and then passed on to other people, instead of being returned.

A Thousand and One Books has been presented at London International Festival of Theatre in 2016[2], and at the Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair in 2016.[3]

Human Library

Human Library is "like any other library but instead of borrowing a book you can borrow a person for conversation". The library presents a selection of "Living Books": people who tell a story about their life and discuss it with a member of the public visiting the installation.

Human Library has been presented in London at SOAS (2015)[4], Whitechapel Gallery (2015), the London International Festival of Theatre (2016)[5], and in Perth at the Perth Writers Festival (2016)[6].

Shipping container decorated to look like a giant shoebox, with a queue of people at its doors.
Empathy Museum's A Mile in My Shoes at The Migration Museum in London, 2018.

A Mile in My Shoes

A Mile in My Shoes is a travelling "shoe shop" with over 250 pairs of shoes and audio stories collected by the Empathy Museum. Visitors are invited to walk a mile in someone else's shoes by temporarily exchanging their footwear for a pair in the museum's collection. While walking, visitors listen to a story about the shoe owner's life through a pair of headphones.

A Mile in My Shoes has been presented across England and internationally, including in Belgium (2017)[7], Australia (2017)[8], Ireland (2017)[9], Brazil (2017)[10], Scotland (2018)[11] and the USA (2018)[12].

References

  1. ^ "A Thousand and One Books". {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ "Empathy Museum — NOW Gallery". nowgallery.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  3. ^ "empathy museum | Roman Krznaric". www.romankrznaric.com. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  4. ^ "A week of waste reduction actions – do your bit for European Week for Waste Reduction". www.wiseuptowaste.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  5. ^ "Empathy Museum — NOW Gallery". nowgallery.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  6. ^ "Human Library - PIAF". PIAF. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  7. ^ "KIKK Festival - The Empathy Museum at KIKK festival 2017". KIKK Festival - 2017. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  8. ^ "PIAF A Mile in My Shoes". PIAF. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  9. ^ "HearSay19 Programme - HearSay International Audio Arts Festival". www.hearsayfestival.ie. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  10. ^ Gardner, Lyn (2016-06-06). "A drag queen's heels and a miner's boots: show lets you walk a mile in their shoes". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  11. ^ "A Mile in My Shoes - National Theatre Scotland". National Theatre Scotland. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  12. ^ "https://futureofstorytelling.org/project/empathy-museum". futureofstorytelling.org. Retrieved 2018-10-18. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
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