A small group led by Happy Museum with partners – AIM, NMDC and the National Trust – is exploring how to address the mounting challenges facing museum collections.  Environmentally, financially, socially, professionally and ethically, we need to change the way we’re currently working with collections. The scale of the challenge for many museums is existential: […]

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Play builds the kind of free-and-easy, try-it-out, do-it-yourself character that our future needs. James L. Hymes Jr. Many museums offer playful opportunities for children – but how creative, experimental and playful are we in our work – as adult professionals and within our museum teams? How might playful approaches open up new ideas and creativity in […]

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