Our latest news and events.
- Happy Museum Funded Commissions Announced Awards to six UK museums and galleries are part of a groundbreaking programme to see how museums can create new civic spaces to help society transition to a high well-being, ...
- Museums for the Future Toolkit The Happy Museum Project is very pleased to endorse and share with you the Museums for the Future Toolkit, commissioned by Renaissance South East and written by Bridget McKenzie of ...
- Finding the other ‘U’ – Happy Museum and Action for Happiness launch IN 2011 The Happy Museum took its place at the launch of ‘Action for Happiness’ in St Luke’s Old Street, London – proudly we might add, given our Happy Museum ...
- Happy Museum Project launches March 29th saw the launch of the Happy Museum project at the October Gallery in London. Senior representatives from museums, agencies, local councils, funders and other organisations and individuals with ...
- Happy Museum Project announces £60,000 Commission Fund A fund of £60,000 will be made available through open application support museums to demonstrate that the principles of happiness and well-being can leave a legacy of cultural change within ...
- The Happy Museum Paper – 2011 The Happy Museum – a tale of how it could all turn out alright Published at the launch of the Happy Museum Project in 2011 and authored by Sam Thompson and ...
- Museum appoints Happiness Associates The Museum of East Anglian Life (MEAL) has become the first museum in the UK to engage Happiness Consultants. Lucy Neal and Hilary Jennings will be working to deliver the Happy Museum programme, a project designed to encourage museums to think about ...
- Can a museum ‘Re-imagine’ our relationship to things In a previous blog I suggested ways in which museums could be part of a re-crafting of a world where climate change and peak oil has limited our capacity for ...
- Is it time for Transition Museums? This article originally appeared on Tony’s own blog The development of the Transition movement should be very instructive to UK museums. Faced with climate change, Peak Oil and gas and a ...
- Rules for a Playful Museum – Manchester Museum
Manchester Museum undertook two Happy Museum projects aiming to investigate and embed playfulness in their museum practice. The first project trained the museum’s visitor team to develop their understanding of ...