Our latest news and events.
- Revealing Reading’s Hidden History – Oxford Road Fun Day! Earlier this month, contributors to the Oxford Road element of the Revealing Reading’s Hidden Histories project gathered to share the fruits of their local research at the annual Oxford Road Fun ...
- Landscapes of the Mind conference at The Lightbox 2013 – Report Happy Museum Project – Landscapes of the Mind: The Art of Wellbeing conference, 28/06/13 The conference discussed the thinking behind the Happy Museums Project, described its progress, and went through some ...
- Chiltern Open Air Museum win Environment Award at Pride of Bucks ceremony! Many congratulations to Happy Museum funding recipients, the Chiltern Open Air Museum (COAM), on their Environmental Award win at the first Pride of Bucks ceremony! The event was organised by ...
- Revealing Reading’s Hidden Histories – second project update Reading Museum’s Happy Museum commission has deepened our dialogue with neighbourhoods in Reading. With the support of Neighbourhood Action Groups (NAGs) we have made contact with residents in areas of ...
- Congratulations to The Beaney – Nominated for a Collections Trust Award! Many congratulations to The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge in Canterbury! Their Happy Museum sponsored exhibition, “The Paper Apothecary,” is up for a prestigious Collections Trust: Excellence in Collections ...
- Happy Museum films VIDEOS FROM THE FIRST HAPPY MUSEUM SYMPOSIUM IN 2012 Tony Butler – Describing the reasons behind the Symposium VIEW Tony Butler Abigail Tripp – The Cinema Museum, describing what the Symposium meant to ...
- BES – benessere, equo, sostenibile equal and sustainable well-being an Italian view by Tony Butler It seems that across Western Europe communities and municipalities are reassessing what it means to have a good life. This week I was invited to Piedmont in Italy to speak ...
- Daniel Fujiwara radio interview on The Voice of Russia On April 24th, ‘Happiness Economist‘ Daniel Fujiwara was interviewed by The Voice of Russia World Service in a special programme on Maria Miller’s recent speech on value and the arts ...
- Happy Museum Open Workshops 2013 – a report In April 2013 the Happy Museum Project (HMP) held Open Workshops in Newcastle and Birmingham. Staged in the Great Northern Museum and The Fazeley Studios respectively, the venues providing magnificent ...
- Sustainability in North West Museums – A blog by Anna Bunney, Manchester Museum Bees on the roof of Manchester Art Gallery, Love Food Hate Waste Roman food recipes from the Grosvenor Museum in Chester and monitoring electricity use in the Victorian buildings of ...