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- Museums and Happiness – Research Report 2013 The Happy Museum Project wants museums to play an active part in a sustainable future, by fostering wellbeing that doesn’t cost the Earth. So it’s helpful to have the proof ...
- Experimenting with Object Handling at IWM North – report 3 of 3 Here is some information about the final two object handling models that we tested over February Half Term. 3. The third model continued in the playful vein, with visitors being invited to ...
- Experimenting with Object Handling at IWM North – report 2 of 3 Following on from our earlier sessions, the other four models were also unleashed on an unsuspecting public during February half term! Here is some information about the first two models ...
- Linking the past with the present in Museum Displays We met to discuss how we might link the past with the present in museum displays, a question which touches on several Happy Museum themes – ‘connect’, ‘mutual relationships’, ‘active ...
- Academic article on musuems as partners for public health interventions Take a look at Paul Camic and Helen J Chatterjee’s excellent new article on museums and art galleries as partners for public health interventions: Camic and Chatterjee Paul Camic & Helen J ...
- Experimenting with Object Handling at IWM North – report 1 of 3 Our Happy Museum project is concerned with trialling and evaluating different object handling methods and looking at how we can create more meaningful conversations with our visitors around them. During a ...
- Symposium 2013 – blog by Tony Butler In the first of a series of blogs from our recent Symposium – Tony Butler, Happy Museum Director, talks about what we’ve learnt so far…. The Happy Museum was designed as ...
- Symposium 2013 – blog by Ailsa Strachan A personal perspective from Ailsa Strachan of Manchester Museum This year’s symposium felt different to last year’s. Last year, I was part of a new commission. Everything was new and uncertain ...
- Symposium 2013 – Blog responses and Report Between 6-8th February, 45 attendees made their way to the beautiful Trafford Hall in Chester for the second Happy Museum symposium. Commissioned projects, speakers, and guests from across the museum, ...
- Symposium 2013 – blog by Sian Thurgood The word I used when asked to sum up the Happy Museum Symposium on Friday was ‘proud’. However reflecting on it a few days later on a miserable wintry evening, ...