‘It looked like we were at sea’: UK River and Rowing Museum faces up to climate threat

The museum seen from above during flooding in January. Photograph: Richard Pinches

From the reconstructed riverside of The Wind in the Willows to an historic Georgian rowboat used in the inaugural Oxford-Cambridge race, the exhibits at the River and Rowing Museum celebrate the importance of British rivers.

But the award-winning building in Henley-on-Thames – designed by the modernist architect David Chipperfield – is facing a significant threat from the very river beside which it resides.