Our latest news and events.
- Walking the Ways to Well-Being Back in January I went to another Action for Happiness event, having previously blogged about my take onHenry Stewart’s Happy Manifesto back in November. This time, it was new economics foundationstatistician and Happy Planet ...
- Operation Green Museum A blog from Hannah Guthrie of the London Transport Museum Commission Project about her experience at a recent Operation Green Museum event. One concern expressed at the Happy Museum symposium in ...
- Happy Museum Symposium 2012 – reflections We will shortly be publishing a full report on the first Happy Museum Symposium held in Suffolk last week – but in the meantime the following piece by Tony Butler ...
- Well-being Measurement ? no place for the Arts, Culture and Heritage? The Office of National Statistics is now consulting on the first set of national well-being* measures and the Happy Museum Project is shocked to see that the current proposals do ...
- Happiness at Work – OK for businesses but not for museums? On 22nd November Steve Gardam from the Happy Museum Commission at London Transport Museum went to an Action for Happiness event at Cass Business School in London, to hear Henry ...
- Can museums inspire innovators into the transition to low carbon living? Over the coming 12 months we will be blogging pieces focused around the 8 principles of the manifesto in the Happy Museum Paper – here, in no particular order, is ...
- What can museums do to improve the nation’s wellbeing? This was the question posed at The Feel Good Museum, an event organised by the Midlands Federation of Museums and Art Galleries. Sian Thurgood and I went along to introduce ...
- Happy Museum Commissions Launched On 14th September representatives of the six Happy Museum Commissions – Manchester Museum, Godalming Museum, Lightbox Surrey, London Transport Museum, Oxford Story Museum and the Cinema Museum met with Tony ...
- The Happy Museum Project – really something else? A blog from Tony Butler following the Happy Museum session at the Museums Association Conference As well as an endorsement from Caroline Lucas, the UK’s only Green Party MP, there was ...
- 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, ...