Our latest news and events.
- New partnership with Julie’s Bicycle
Happy Museum are delighted to announce our new collaboration and partnership with Julie’s Bicycle. Together, Julie’s Bicycle and Happy Museum seek to accelerate the transition to a sustainable and climate ... - Call out for museum teams for new Peer Learning Programme
About No Going Back In this Happy Museum programme, we seek to build on the particular power of museums to draw on past stories of rapid transition and transformation; and to ... - Creative Civic Connections for Climate
In this session we explored how museums can connect with their communities to respond to the climate emergency with immediacy, reciprocity, creativity and fun – using shared and pop up ... - ‘What if museums could become engine-rooms of the imagination?
“To imagine is to represent without aiming at things as they actually, presently, and subjectively are. One can use imagination to represent possibilities other than the actual, to represent times ... - How can museums tell a new story of place?
Our greatest need today is to see life as whole, to see its many sides in their proper relations; but we must have a practical as well as a philosophical ... - No Going Back Conversations
Dip in! – click the links for recordings and reports What if Museums could become engine rooms of the imagination? With Rob Hopkins, activist and writer; Hannah Fox, Derby Museums and ... - Collections, Compassion and Covid-19
Covid-19 has changed our world in ways that we could never have imagined. The pandemic has had a seismic impact on our world, its impacts exposing questions about what really ... - How might museums help us navigate beyond our current crisis?
‘The past few weeks have exposed the fact that the biggest things can always change, at any minute. This simple truth, both destabilising and liberating, is easy to forget. We’re ... - Museums and the imperative for change – a provocation
Happy Museum is excited to be a Commissioning Partner in the forthcoming Season for Change 2020 – a nationwide festival of artistic work engaging with the climate and ecological crisis, ... - Museums as conveners in a contested world
‘Our communities are diverse and complicated. They are muddled and made up of individuals who share, disagree, find common cause or show indifference to each other. Some neighbourhoods are diverse, ...