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Our latest news and events.

  • Symposium 2013 – blog by Sian Thurgood
    The word I used when asked to sum up the Happy Museum Symposium on Friday was ‘proud’. However reflecting on it a few days later on a miserable wintry evening, ...
  • Short film of the 2013 Symposium
    Clive Ardagh of Onward Productions  has put together this great compilation of symposium footage – we hope it gives you a flavour of the event. Happy Museum Symposium 2013 Watch out for ...
  • Linking wellbeing and sustainability – how confident are we?
    How confident are we in making the link between well-being and environmental sustainability? Catherine Langabeer, Operations Director at Julie’s Bicycle attended the recent Happy Museum Symposium where she posed the following ...
  • Revealing Reading’s Hidden Histories – first project update
    There is very positive indication that the Happy Museum project will be the starting point of a process of deepening dialogue with the communities with both the Oxford Road and ...
  • Smiles all round at The Story Museum
    The Story Museum is one of 35 organisations to receive a Small Capital Grant in the current round of Arts Council England awards, announced in January. Our grant is worth ...
  • Story Museum – volunteer wellbeing
    Like all museums and arts venues, The Story Museum would not be able to function without its team of enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers. They have kept our exhibitions and events running ...
  • Story Museum – Designing a happy Museum
    The Story Museum is unique among the Happy Museum’s commissions: we are the only organisation which does not yet have a physical ‘museum’ space. So far we have run a pilot ...
  • Congratulations and celebrations – The Story Museum
    When Heritage Story Skills trainees celebrated the end of their course at The Story Museum, who better to present them with their certificates than Inspector Morse author Colin Dexter? The fifteen ...
  • Story Museum – Make me smile
    Children from five Oxford primary schools made masks for a Lottery-funded project, Make Me Smile, which showed how happiness can be expressed in many different ways. The Story Museum was delighted to ...
  • Manchester’s Playful Museum at the MA Conference
    At the MA conference this year we led a workshop about Manchester Museum’s Playful Museum project. We wanted to demonstrate how we have begun to put the Happy Museum principles ...