Our latest news and events.
- Exciting new role at Manchester Museum
Common Cause Foundation (CCF) is working with Manchester Museum to launch a new conversation across the Greater Manchester region about what matters to people, and their perceptions of others’ values. ... - ACE Museum Resilience Fund supports new Happy Museum Affiliate Scheme
Happy Museum are delighted to receive funding from the Arts Council England‘s Museum Resilience Fund to support our continuing partnership with People United and in particular to launch a new Affiliate Scheme in autumn 2016. In response ... - Happy and Green: Connecting Sustainability and Wellbeing
Hosted at the London Transport Museum in 2016, Happy and Green drew connections between Sustainability and Wellbeing in supporting individual, institutional and societal resilience – and considered the particular role ... - Connecting sustainability and wellbeing – a gathering momentum
Jonathan Rowson of the RSA said ‘the essence of the climate change challenge is the wrong kind of energy (fossil fuels) in the wrong kind of economy (fixated with GDP) ... - Rules for a Playful Museum
Read and download our Rules for a Playful Museum below See here for more about our work on play in museums. - ‘How far have you travelled?’ Metrics for modern museums
‘How long was your journey to get here today?’ was the first question a room full of museum and cultural professionals were posed on a wet March 1st in Birmingham’s ... - Museum of Fossil Fuels
What would you put in a Museum of Fossil Fuels? The Happy Museum invite you imagine what object you would place in a Museum of Fossil Fuels. We invite you to ponder ... - Constable, climate change and co-production – a day of Happy Museum ethics.
The General Assembly Room at the Royal Academy of Arts is a decadent chamber surrounded by golden pilasters and magnificent paintings such as John Constable’s the Leaping Horse. Originally a ... - Measure What Matters, from tools to transformation
Measure What Matters Fazeley Studios Birmingham 1st March 2016, 10-5pm Our third Happy Museum ‘Measure What Matters’ event is a holistic look at evaluation in museums. From tools to transformation, ... - Exploring our values – an opportunity for museums?
The Happy Museum was delighted to invite Tom Crompton of the Common Cause Foundation to speak at a recent gathering of our 5-Year Study Group of museums. Tom spoke about ...