Our latest news and events.
- Second Round of Funds for Museums that Foster Wellbeing That Doesn’t Cost The Earth The groundbreaking Happy Museum announces a second round of awards as part of a wider programme funded by Arts Council England’s Renaissance Strategic support fund. Six additional UK museums and ...
- New £60,000 Commision Fund Launched Happy Museum is delighted to announce a second open application fund of £60,000 – available to museums to demonstrate how building links between sustainability and well-being can leave a legacy ...
- Notes from a small museum – Zen and the art of museum maintenance? Last week we had our first full meeting with our project partners. I wanted to start by explaining the inspiration behind our project but found myself going round in circles ...
- Transition and a language of change Some people, and I’m one of them, are very lucky to find their personal and professional lives merge. I guess there’s a work-life-balance risk associated, but on the whole give ...
- Musings from ‘Landscapes of the Mind’ at The Lightbox, Woking Our arts work with the group of people with mental health problems is progressing well. Everyone seems to be enjoying it and ‘in the best sense’ profiting from it. We ...
- 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 ...