Communities that are LIFE:

• Learning
• Interacting
• Feeling happy, satisfied and worthwhile
• Environmentally aware

are some of the Happy Museum ways of defining the Why – what difference we make. Below are relevant tools and resources.

Museum Case Studies

Some case studies where this driver was tested out in practice.

• Thematic Case Study – Engaging emotions to promote wellbeing and build resilience
  This case study looks at how deliberately seeking to engage emotions can help to promote ...
• Case Study – Museum of East Anglian Life, building social capital and promoting wellbeing.
  This case study looks at how the Museum of East Anglian life reimagined itself as ...
• Case Study – Reading Museum, engaging with vulnerable communities.
  This case study is about how Reading Museum used a community history project to pilot ...
• Case Study – The Lightbox, Woking, community engagement and co-creation.
  This case study is about how members of the community with mental health issues curated ...
• Case Study – Derby Museums, participation, making and well-being
  This case study is about how Derby Museums put community participation and co-production at the ...
• Case Study – Bilston Craft Gallery, developing outdoor play.
  This case study is about how Bilston Craft Gallery developed an under-used outdoor space. Staff ...
• Case Study – Beaney House, prescribing happiness
  This case study is about how The Paper Apothecary, a participative temporary exhibition/activity was co-created ...
• Case Study – Abergavenny Museum, real practice, real impact.
  This case study is about how Abergavenny Museum used Happy Museum funding to test a new ...

Themed Case Studies

Themed case study focusing on this driver.

• Thematic Case Study – Engaging emotions to promote wellbeing and build resilience
  This case study looks at how deliberately seeking to engage emotions can help to promote ...

Tools

Some tools you might like to use.

Review for organisations

• Observational evaluation
  Observational evaluation An in-gallery approach to predefined indicators of outcomes. Observational evaluation involves researchers observing participants in ...
• Narrative evaluation
  Narrative evaluation A desk work approach to identifying themes including how frequently they recur, by analysing ...
• Embedded evaluation
  Embedded evaluation A variety of in-gallery, open approaches which might be fun, embedded in the exhibition ...