The groundbreaking Happy Museum announces a second round of awards as part of a wider programme funded by Arts Council England’s Renaissance Strategic support fund. Six additional UK museums and galleries have been selected to show how museums can support the transition to a high well-being, sustainable society – bringing a total of Happy Museum […]
Read More →Happy Museum is delighted to announce a second open application fund of £60,000 – available to museums to demonstrate how building links between sustainability and well-being can leave a legacy of cultural change within their organisations and communities. An increasing number of academics, economists, psychologists and ecologists are identifying the vital linkage between sustainability and […]
Read More →Last week we had our first full meeting with our project partners. I wanted to start by explaining the inspiration behind our project but found myself going round in circles thinking about the 8 Happy Museum principles. Are they about what the museum wants to achieve or about how it operates? I guess this is […]
Read More →Some people, and I’m one of them, are very lucky to find their personal and professional lives merge. I guess there’s a work-life-balance risk associated, but on the whole give me work that I’d do unpaid any day. Yesterday I was invited to a seminar on researching the Transition movement which was a mix of […]
Read More →Our arts work with the group of people with mental health problems is progressing well. Everyone seems to be enjoying it and ‘in the best sense’ profiting from it. We had a discussion last week about wellbeing and one of the participants gave a rather good quote (they weren’t his words, he said, but he […]
Read More →Well, of course not, not happy as such, but it can make you think, start you wondering and researching, introduce you to new ideas, new places and new people. Does it make a difference if the tragedy was 500 years ago? I find the Mary Rose endlessly fascinating. Reading about it or visiting it certainly […]
Read More →This article by Tony Butler, Museums of Happiness, is in a 2012 edition of Resurgence Magazine: CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE. It gives background to the Happy Museum project and points to the influence the project is having and can have in the wider world of culture, ecology and change. The article sits alongside other extremely interesting […]
Read More →A fortnight ago I was invited to present a session about Happy Museum project at the 2012 Swedish Museums Association Conference in Gothenburg. The conference theme explored how museums could be for the ‘here and now’. Three timely keynote speakers reminded delegates how culture, to paraphrase Brecht, could be both hammer and mirror inspiring and […]
Read More →Here is a post by Abigail Tripp from Happy Museum Commission at The Cinema Museum – Creative Community Curators I just had the most amazing session at the Imperial War Museum about object dialogue boxes. They are amazing and perfect for what the Creative Community Curators want to do The Cinema Museum. They want to […]
Read More →Happy Museum is delighted that their part in a broad campaign to have culture and the arts recognised as a contributor to personal wellbeing has led to a rethink of the way that the Office for National Statistics is building its framework for measuring wellbeing. The recent Government-sponsored consultation on the way that national wellbeing […]
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