Resources, tools and useful things
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 →The Happy Museum Project are pleased to announce the publication of our first major Learning and Evaluation report. One of the principles of Happy Museum is to ‘measure what matters’, and the report was undertaken in that spirit.It is about learning as much as advocacy, and so explores challenges openly. It aims to find […]
Read More →VIDEOS FROM THE FIRST HAPPY MUSEUM SYMPOSIUM IN 2012 Tony Butler – Describing the reasons behind the Symposium VIEW Tony Butler Abigail Tripp – The Cinema Museum, describing what the Symposium meant to her VIEW Abi Tripp Paul Allen’s talk – Centre for Alternative Technology VIEW Paul Allen (Part 1) VIEW Paul Allen (Part […]
Read More →The Happy Museum Project wants museums to play an active part in a sustainable future, by fostering wellbeing that doesn’t cost the Earth. So it’s helpful to have the proof that museums do make you happy, in the form of a report from ‘Happiness Economist’ Daniel Fujiwara of the London School of Economics. Happy Museum […]
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 →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 […]
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