A total of 22 museums have been commissioned through four rounds of funding.  They are the core of a growing Happy Museum Community of Practice.

These commissioned projects form a community of practice through which the programme creates, tests and shares practice, fosters peer-learning, creates spaces for deeper and more innovative thinking all backed by programmes of research and advocacy which underpin and share thinking within and beyond the museum sector.

• Collecting Connections – Godalming Museum
• Young Sustainability Champions – Torquay Museum
• Flowers for Love and Money – Garden Museum
• The Paper Apothecary – Beaney House
• Happy From the Beginning – Story Museum
• The Conversation Hub – London Transport Museum
• Community Conversations – Slough Museum
• Craftplay – Bilston Craft Gallery
• Creative Community Curators – Cinema Museum
• Green Ways from Yesterday – Chiltern OAM
• Kirkstall Abbey – Happy Project
• Landscapes of the Mind – Lightbox
• Objects, Health and Healing
• Participating With Objects – IWM North
• Reaping the Knowledge – Ceredigion Museum
• Re:make the Museum – Derby
• Revealing Reading’s Hidden History – Reading Museum
• Rules for a Playful Museum – Manchester Museum
• Shaping a Happy Academy – RWA Bristol
• Sounds in the Garden – Shakespeare BT
• Stand up for Woodhorn
• The Gospel Ship – Ceredigion Museum
• Waste Not… – LIghtbox, Woking
• Weaving WellBEEing – Abergavenny Museum
• What’s Your Story? – Gwynedd (now Storiel) Museum
• Where’s Reading Heading – Reading Museum

There is a real sense of shared endeavour, enthusiasm and commitment. Being part of an influential and thoughful alternative museum reality is very inspiring and has clearly met a need within staff and volunteers within the sector. – HM ‘friend’ about the Community of Practice