Here is a collection of all the Happy Museum video resources.

Dip into an eclectic mix of talks about the Happy Museum, videos coverage of events and vox pops about the project.

About the Happy Museum

Tony Butler, Founder, talks about the Happy Museum

Hilary Jennings, Director, gives a keynote presentation at the Finnish Heritage Agency – Museum Theme days – October 2020

A presentation about the Happy Museum for the Canadian Museums Association conference in 2017

Tony Butler talks about the Roots of the Happy Museum

Tony Butler on the social background to the Happy Museum

All about the Happy Museum Project

Mandy Barnett explains the Story of Change – a key Happy Museum evaluation tool.

No Going Back – recordings of our workshop series

Session 2 – The role of culture in a time of self-reflection

Session 3 – What if Museums could be engine-rooms of the imagination?

 

Happy Museum Symposium 2018

The global Imperative – perspectives from Tom Powell of Exeter University and members of the Community of Practice

Panel – Ian Rimmington, Senior Manager Environmental Sustainability, ACE

The London Transport’s Happy Museum Commission

 

Happy and Green – footage from our 2016 advocacy event

Footage from our 2016 event bringing together thinking around sustainability and wellbeing

Footage from our 2016 event bringing together thinking around sustainability and wellbeing

Lord Gus O’Donnell on how we measure societal progress (from our 2016 Happy and Green event)

Rob Hopkins on how our past can inform a better future (from our 2016 Happy and Green event)

Happy Museum Symposium 2013 – talks and reflections

Tony Butler speaks at the Happy Museum Symposium 2013

Tony Butler on a shared sense of purpose in the Community of Practice

Nat Edwards on the essence of Happy Museum

Peter Stott on his hopes for a Happy Museum in Scotland

Jack Shutleworth from Bilston Craft Gallery on the need to engage the wider museum service

Afsheen Butt talks about her Ah Ha! moment

Katherine Ford on the future of the Community of Practice

Mike Zeidler of the Happy City Bristol

 

Footage from our first symposium in 20112

Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation speaking at the 2012 Symposium – part 1 of 3

Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation speaking at the 2012 Symposium part 2 of 3

Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation at the 2012 Symposium – part 2 of 3

Paul Allen of the Centre for Alternative Technology speaking at the 2012 Symposium part 3 of 3

Paul Allen of the Centre for Alternative Technology speaking at the 2012 Symposium part 2 of 3

Tony Butler speaks at the 2012 Happy Museum Symposium

Abigail Tripp of the Cinema Museum speaks at the 2012 Symposium

Talks and reflections from the Happy Museum launch in 2011

Tim Lang speaking at the Happy Museum launch in 2011

Charles Seaford speaking at the Happy Museum launch in 2012

Tony Butler speaking at the Happy Museum Launch in 2012ReRe

Reflections from the Happy Museum Launch 2011