ABSTRACT
Faced with increasing competition for visitors, museums have been reinventing themselves to connect with their surrounding neighborhoods using architecture and other amenities, including using green roofs to connect to the community and to ideas of sustainability. This chapter examines the use of green roofs in three case studies—the Denver Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, and the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario—to examine how green roofs in museums mirror current urban sustainability and public amenities discourse, where they diverge, and how they fit into current research on the public benefits of green roofs.
