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- ‘What if museums could become engine-rooms of the imagination?
“To imagine is to represent without aiming at things as they actually, presently, and subjectively are. One can use imagination to represent possibilities other than the actual, to represent times ... - How can museums tell a new story of place?
Our greatest need today is to see life as whole, to see its many sides in their proper relations; but we must have a practical as well as a philosophical ... - No Going Back Conversations
Society has changed dramatically. Lockdown and Black Lives Matter protests have blown open any sense of ‘normal’. Now, as museums, galleries and heritage organisations struggle with planning for reopening, the ... - Collections, Compassion and Covid-19
Covid-19 has changed our world in ways that we could never have imagined. The pandemic has had a seismic impact on our world, its impacts exposing questions about what really ... - How might museums help us navigate beyond our current crisis?
‘The past few weeks have exposed the fact that the biggest things can always change, at any minute. This simple truth, both destabilising and liberating, is easy to forget. We’re ... - Museums and the imperative for change – a provocation
Happy Museum is excited to be a Commissioning Partner in the forthcoming Season for Change 2020 – a nationwide festival of artistic work engaging with the climate and ecological crisis, ... - Museums as conveners in a contested world
‘Our communities are diverse and complicated. They are muddled and made up of individuals who share, disagree, find common cause or show indifference to each other. Some neighbourhoods are diverse, ... - New! Messing About in the Museums Workshop – in Leeds on July 17th
Don’t miss our playful places next workshop in Leeds which will be talking about Children’s rights, playful adults and play as protest! If you are interested in gaining creative ideas and ... - Happy Museum declares climate emergency
On 3rd April 2019 Happy Museum will join the first wave of cultural organisations declaring climate emergency. As the accelerating impacts of climate change become increasingly evident it is vital that we ... - Values work for museums
“Gave us a completely different perspective on how we think, and a framework within which we can actively curate and communicate to promote the shared ‘compassionate’ values of our visitors ...