Back in January I went to another Action for Happiness event, having previously blogged about my take onHenry Stewart’s Happy Manifesto back in November.  This time, it was new economics foundationstatistician and Happy Planet Index guru Nic Marks. I don’t want to tell you all of what Nic said: he does this very well for himself on TED. Also, it […]

A blog from Hannah Guthrie of the London Transport Museum Commission Project about her experience at a recent Operation Green Museum event. One concern expressed at the Happy Museum symposium in Suffolk a couple of weeks ago was the potential disconnect between the concepts of wellbeing and social sustainability versus that of environmental sustainability. It […]

On 22nd November Steve Gardam from the Happy Museum Commission at London Transport Museum went to an Action for Happiness event at Cass Business School in London, to hear Henry Stewart talk about happiness at work. Henry has just written a new book ? ?The Happy Manifesto’ ? based on his experiences of running a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In a previous blog I suggested ways in which museums could be part of a re-crafting of a world where climate change and peak oil has limited our capacity for economic growth. A low carbon future is imagined where prosperity relies not on an individual’s ability to consume but on his or her capacity to […]

This article originally appeared on Tony’s own blog The development of the Transition movement should be very instructive to UK museums. Faced with climate change, Peak Oil and gas and a dependency on state aid for funding either at local or national level, museums might look to Transition as a means to encourage environmental, economic […]