Back in July 2013, the Woodhorn Charitable Trust were recipients of funding from the Happy Museum for their project, “Stand Up for Woodhorn: Making a Case for Comedy in Museums.” For more information on their project see HERE. In order to chart the progress of their project, the Woodhorn have created a great new […]
Read More →The Happy Museum Project are pleased to announce the publication of our first major Learning and Evaluation report. One of the principles of Happy Museum is to ‘measure what matters’, and the report was undertaken in that spirit.It is about learning as much as advocacy, and so explores challenges openly. It aims to find […]
Read More →We’re delighted to announce that Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery, Bangor (GMAG) will join the Happy Museum Community of Practice as third round recipients. GMAG join 9 other museums and galleries from England and Wales who have been selected to show how museums can support the transition to a high well-being, sustainable society – bringing […]
Read More →Happy Museum Press Release The groundbreaking Happy Museum announces a third round of awards as part of a wider programme funded by Arts Council England’s Renaissance Strategic support fund and CyMAL, Wales. 10 museums and galleries from England and Wales have been selected to show how museums can support the transition to a high well-being, […]
Read More →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 Day. Braving scorching heat, members of the Oxford Road steering committee handing out pamphlets detailing neglected facts about the West Reading street. As part of […]
Read More →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 of the evidence supporting its philosophy, and successes seen in similar projects. The first speaker was Professor Paul Camic, who I missed due […]
Read More →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 the Buckinghamshire Examiner and Advertiser Newspapers Series and supported by B P Collins LLP in order to highlight environmental awareness in the Chilterns. The award […]
Read More →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 Reading blighted by high levels of crime and scoring poorly in social indexes of deprivation. Participants have explored the museum’s collections and delved into archives […]
Read More →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 Management award. The Paper Apothecary was funded by the Happy Museum Project during our second round of commissions. In addition to The Beaney, other Participatory […]
Read More →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 her VIEW Abi Tripp Paul Allen’s talk – Centre for Alternative Technology VIEW Paul Allen (Part 1) VIEW Paul Allen (Part […]
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