Our latest news and events.
- Waste Not…. the anti-upgrading exhibition 2015 – report
‘Our enormously productive economy demands we make consumption a way of life’.
This is a quote from 1955 on the wall of a recent exhibition at The Lightbox (supported by Happy ... - Happy Museum Evaluation Report – September 2014 The Happy Museum Project are pleased to announce the publication of our second Learning and Evaluation Report (Sep 14) . One of the principles of Happy Museum is to ‘measure ...
- Where’s Reading Heading – project update In August 2014, Reading Museum received a second commission from the Happy Museum to build on the earlier success of its Revealing Reading’s Hidden Histories project (also, see here). The ...
- Launch of the Happy Museum 5-Year Plan – 2015 Since 2011 Happy Museum (HM) has brought together thinking around well-being and sustainability and investigated the particular role of museums in supporting individual, organisational and societal resilience. It places its ...
- Happy Museum receives ACE Resilience Funding for planned work supported by People United The Happy Museum Project and People United are delighted to have been awarded funding from the ACE Museum Resilience Fund for the period 2015/6. Increasing numbers of economists, ecologists, politicians, psychologists ...
- Happy and Green – workshops 2013/4 Happy and Green: Workshops investigating the benefits to museum teams of a focus on wellbeing and sustainability In September 2013 teams from seven museums gathered together at the fantastic Cinema Museum ...
- Happy Museum Commissions Three New Projects We’re delighted to announce that following our open call to the exisiting Community of Practice, we have commissioned new projects at Reading Museum, Manchester Museum and The Lightbox, Woking. The ...
- News from Derby, WAVE/Craftspace and Woodhorn Derby Museums, WAVE/Craftspace and Woodhorn Charitable Trust all use blogs as a way to disseminate up-to-date information about their Happy Museum commissioned projects. Derby Museums’ Tumblr site for example provides ...
- Harvesting the Knowledge Symposium – Ceredigion Museum 2014 – report On a beautifully sunny Friday this June I had the great pleasure to attend a symposium run by Ceredigion Museum as part of its Happy Museum Project, Harvesting the Knowledge. ...
- Volunteers – who benefits? Workshop 2014 – Report Volunteers – who benefits? Happy Museum Development Day 4 February 2014 Evaluation Ruth Clarke event programmer Event details Date: 4 February 2014 Location: Bilston Craft Gallery Who: Happy Museum community of practice and those involved in Volunteer ...