Our latest news and events.
- Launch of the Happy Museum 5-Year Plan – 2015Since 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 UnitedThe 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 2013/4Happy 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 ProjectsWe’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 WoodhornDerby 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 – reportOn 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 – ReportVolunteers – 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 ...
- Stewardship, Equity, Flow – the Happy Museum report by Tony Butler Symposium 2014At our Symposium (2014), Founder Director Tony Butler presented a paper – Stewardship, Equity, Flow – reviewing the first three years of the Happy Museum project. ‘As it completes its third ...
- Happiness is…? Report by Frances Reed – Symposium 2014Share aggressively, steal with pride and none is as smart as all of us. It was under the guidance of these messages that the Happy Museum Project held its 2 day conference ...
- My Happy Museum Journey by Afsheen Butt – Symposium 2014Afsheen Butt is a member of Aik Saath, a Slough-based charity that empowers and supports young people to lead and deliver change in their community. Aik Saath worked in close ...