This was the question posed at The Feel Good Museum, an event organised by the Midlands Federation of Museums and Art Galleries. Sian Thurgood and I went along to introduce The Happy Museum Project, outline plans at London Transport Museum and get people thinking about measuring what matters. Peter Field, the President of the Midlands […]
Read More →On 14th September representatives of the six Happy Museum Commissions – Manchester Museum, Godalming Museum, Lightbox Surrey, London Transport Museum, Oxford Story Museum and the Cinema Museum met with Tony Butler and the team to start planning their projects (more info and a summary of the projects here). They were joined by Kate Tyndall of […]
Read More →A blog from Tony Butler following the Happy Museum session at the Museums Association Conference As well as an endorsement from Caroline Lucas, the UK’s only Green Party MP, there was some lively interrogation of the Happy Museum Project at the 2011 Museums Association Conference #mueums2011. The notion of connected museums responding to and leading […]
Read More →Awards to six UK museums and galleries are part of a groundbreaking programme to see how museums can create new civic spaces to help society transition to a high well-being, more sustainable world. Six commissioned works have been inspired by principles set out in the paper, The Happy Museum – a Tale of How it […]
Read More →The Happy Museum Project is very pleased to endorse and share with you the Museums for the Future Toolkit, commissioned by Renaissance South East and written by Bridget McKenzie of Flow Associates. You can download the documents from their home site http://abcofworkingwithschools.org.uk/widening-access/museums-for-the-future/
Read More →IN 2011 The Happy Museum took its place at the launch of ‘Action for Happiness’ in St Luke’s Old Street, London – proudly we might add, given our Happy Museum stall was one of 14 alongside New Economics Foundation, Young Foundation, Happy City and others. Our task for the day, apart from letting as many […]
Read More →March 29th saw the launch of the Happy Museum project at the October Gallery in London. Senior representatives from museums, agencies, local councils, funders and other organisations and individuals with an interest in the project gathered to hear from the following speakers – view their presentations HERE: Charles Seaford – Head of the Centre for […]
Read More →A fund of £60,000 will be made available through open application support museums to demonstrate that the principles of happiness and well-being can leave a legacy of cultural change within their organisations or communities. Supported commissions will be informed by the ?manifesto for well-being’ which concludes The Happy Museum Paper. The deadline for applications is […]
Read More →The Happy Museum – a tale of how it could all turn out alright Published at the launch of the Happy Museum Project in 2011 and authored by Sam Thompson and Jody Aked of the New Economics Foundation, with Bridget McKenzie, Chris Wood, Maurice Davies and Tony Butler, this short paper begins a conversation about […]
Read More →The Museum of East Anglian Life (MEAL) has become the first museum in the UK to engage Happiness Consultants. Lucy Neal and Hilary Jennings will be working to deliver the Happy Museum programme, a project designed to encourage museums to think about what it is to be a sustainable, high well being organisation.
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