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- Notes from a small museum – Can a terrible tragedy make you happy? Well, of course not, not happy as such, but it can make you think, start you wondering and researching, introduce you to new ideas, new places and new people. Does it ...
- Happy Museum in 2012 Resurgence ‘Catalyst for Change’ issue This article by Tony Butler, Museums of Happiness, is in a 2012 edition of Resurgence Magazine: CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE. It gives background to the Happy Museum project and points to the ...
- Grattis Museum projekt ? The Happy Museum in Sweden 2012 A fortnight ago I was invited to present a session about Happy Museum project at the 2012 Swedish Museums Association Conference in Gothenburg. The conference theme explored how museums could ...
- Reflections on Object Dialogue Boxes at the Imperial War Museum Here is a post by Abigail Tripp from Happy Museum Commission at The Cinema Museum – Creative Community Curators I just had the most amazing session at the Imperial War Museum ...
- ONS re-thinks wellbeing measures after cultural campaign Happy Museum is delighted that their part in a broad campaign to have culture and the arts recognised as a contributor to personal wellbeing has led to a rethink of ...
- Happiness and Wellbeing – GEM London event 2012 Here’s a great piece about the recent GEM London event by our own Sian Thurgood of the London Transport Museum’s Happy Museum Commission I looked forward with anticipation to the GEM London event ...
- Pursue mutual relationships – 2012 symposium discussion Notes of a discussion of this principle from the Happy Museum paper at the Symposium This principle inspired a wide-ranging discussion. The starting point was the kind of relationship with which, ...
- Support learning for resilience – 2012 symposium discussion It was acknowledged that resilience was often pigeon-holed as a funding issue and it was key to see resilience in a broader context of global challenges such as climate change, ...
- Think Global, Be Networked – 2012 symposium discussion Here is a summary of this Happy Museum Paper principle at the symposium ?Think global, act local’, should be a guide for museums in transition. Whilst most museums might best support ...
- Measure What Matters – 2012 symposium discussion The following is a summary of discussion of this principle at the 2012 symposium How do we decide what matters? Different things matter to different people. It’s important to decide what ...