Videos
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