Seven Stories is an accredited museum with National styling, dedicated to British children’s literature in the UK. Children’s books and our collection holdings are at the heart of all our activity, enabling us to work with young audiences to originate exhibitions and programming. Looking forward, we are revising our learning & participation policy to advance […]
Read More →In the midst of ecologically challenging times it feels vital for Encounters Arts to be amongst organisations with a shared ethos and principles. In a recent partnership with Torbay Museum we created the Museum of Now which revealed unique insights into human life in South Devon through performance, exhibitions, gatherings and craft. Six artefacts were […]
Read More →Becoming a Happy Museum Affiliate Partner allows us (Culture24) to help museums better understand how to embrace digital technologies to meet the principles advocated for by The Happy Museum. We want to learn how to build the values of Happy Museum into all our work and thinking, and ultimately advocate them to the museum sector. […]
Read More →A new HLF supported restoration and regeneration project at Toynbee hall is enabling us to pioneer new solutions to social problems, to become increasingly creative in how we develop ideas, and to engage with the community and inspire and empower them to help find new solutions to chronic problems. Much of this work will be […]
Read More →At the Mental Health Museum (MHM) we believe that access to real, powerful and tangible human experiences inspires change; from the privately personal, to a collective revolution. Our extraordinary collection aims to support the empowerment of people; joining people together to combat mental health stigma and prejudice. The MHM building is situated at Fieldhead Hospital; […]
Read More →Reading museum‘s strategy towards the environment and well-being has developed as a direct result of the Happy Museum project and represents our commitment to be a museum that places these concerns at the centre of everything we do, but we cannot achieve this in isolation; we want to keep the momentum going. We recognise that […]
Read More →The Design Museum re-opened in Kensington in November 2016. Its vision is to inspire everyone to understand the value of design. As part of the museum’s 10 year development journey, the museum consulted extensively with audiences (‘users’ in design speak) about their wants, needs and dreams for the new museum. Placing visitors at the core […]
Read More →Museums are about stories. Stories can be comfortable bedtime tales or challenging moral fables. Stories are social, and they are better shared. We want to be openly active in our communities ad build stories together. Leeds Museums and Galleries, as the largest local authority museum service in the country, we welcome over a million visitors a […]
Read More →Brendan Carr of Reading Museum describes how their Happy Museum work raised the museum’s profile and helped it get involved in shaping the city’s future. Our first Happy Museum Project commission helped to raise the profile of Reading Museum, which led to the museum becoming involved in the Reading 2050 visioning project as a trusted […]
Read More →Charlotte Smith moved from the museums and galleries sector to Chester Zoo. Here she reflects on Happy Museum thinking and the different models of community engagement the zoo uses in its conservation campaigns. My Happy Museum experience at Imperial War Museum North (read about it here) played a role in awakening my inner activist. I […]
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