At our Symposium (2014), Founder Director Tony Butler presented a paper – Stewardship, Equity, Flow – reviewing the first three years of the Happy Museum project. ‘As it completes its third iteration, Happy Museum will keep asking people in museums how prepared they are to place themselves alongside the rest of civil society to work […]
Read More →Share aggressively, steal with pride and none is as smart as all of us. It was under the guidance of these messages that the Happy Museum Project held its 2 day conference at Stoke Rochford Hall, Grantham. The Happy Museum Project (HMP) re-imagines what museums can be and prompts both museum professionals and audiences to rethink the […]
Read More →Afsheen Butt is a member of Aik Saath, a Slough-based charity that empowers and supports young people to lead and deliver change in their community. Aik Saath worked in close partnership with Slough Museum on the recent Happy Museum project, Community Conversations. To find out more about this project click HERE. http://sloughmuseum.org/ http://www.aiksaath.com/ The three […]
Read More →On Wednesday 2nd April, Mandy Barnett, Happy Museum Evaluator, presented on Happy Museum to the Warwick Commission on the Future of Cultural Value. The commission aims to undertake a comprehensive and holistic investigation into the future of cultural value, gathering together the evidence and arguments to energise the debates about the future of investment and […]
Read More →On 26th February 2014 a group of 30 museum practitioners gathered at the Royal Society in Edinburgh to discuss the formation of a Happy Museum (or ‘Cantie’ Museum after Burns: “Contented Wi’ Little and Cantie Wi’ Mair”) Community of Practice in Scotland. Supported by Mission, Models, Money the event brought together representatives from […]
Read More →Torquay Museum recently featured in the local press for their Happy Museum-funded project, Young Sustainability Champions. Working with the pupils and teachers in the Geography Department at Torquay Boys Grammar School, the museum has developed a cohort of young community sustainability champions who will inspire youth-led projects aimed at increasing understanding of the agenda and […]
Read More →Happy Museum were instrumental in initiating this APPG session, which investigated the role that evidence about wellbeing plays in shaping policy on cultural activities. Witnesses and members at the House of Commons were: Tony Butler, Happy Museum Daniel Fujiwara, London School of Economics and Happy Museum Charlotte Jones, Independent Theatre Council Alan Davey, Arts Council […]
Read More →This development day was put together to share and learn from some of the excellent Happy Museum project practice around well-being, play, creativity and fun. Three commissioned museums presented about their projects, two of which had some very jovial external practitioners from non-museum disciplines to enthuse and inspire us. Woodhorn Museum brought along their […]
Read More →Yesterday, the Happy Museum Project (HMP) held an exciting Open Workshop on Measuring What Matters at the beautiful Fazeley Studios in Birmingham. Attended by representatives from 33 museums and arts organizations, including Bristol Museum, Bilston Craft Gallery and the Mental Health Museum, the day proved to be a great success. HMP Associate, Hilary Jennings, and […]
Read More →A few weeks ago, at the MA Conference in Liverpool, the Happy Museum participated in a fascinating panel discussion. The session, led by Maurice Davies, ued the MA’s Museums Change Lives as a starting point for imagining the future or museums. Panellists were invited to imagine a new city was being constructed in the UK, […]
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