The Happy Museum Project is very pleased to endorse and share with you the Museums for the Future Toolkit, commissioned by Renaissance South East and written by Bridget McKenzie of Flow Associates. You can either download the documents from their home site http://abcofworkingwithschools.org.uk/widening-access/museums-for-the-future/ Or, simply access the toolkit materials below: Museums for the Future A [...]
On Tuesday, The Happy Museum took its place at the launch of ‘Action for Happiness’ in St Luke’s Old Street, London – proudly we might add, given our Happy Museum stall was one of 14 alongside New Economics Foundation, Young Foundation, Happy City and others. Our task for the day, apart from letting as many [...]
March 29th saw the launch of the Happy Museum project at the October Gallery in London. Senior representatives from museums, agencies, local councils, funders and other organisations and individuals with an interest in the project gathered to hear from the following speakers – view their presentations HERE: Charles Seaford – Head of the Centre for [...]
The Happy Museum: A tale of how it could turn out all right Authored by Sam Thompson and Jody Aked of the New Economics Foundation, with Bridget McKenzie, Chris Wood, Maurice Davies and Tony Butler, this short paper begins a conversation about how the UK museum sector can respond to the challenges presented by the [...]
The Museum of East Anglian Life (MEAL) has become the first museum in the UK to engage Happiness Consultants. Lucy Neal and Hilary Jennings will be working to deliver the Happy Museum programme, a project designed to encourage museums to think about what it is to be a sustainable, high well being organisation. A full press release can be found on the MEAL website here. Tweet This Post
In a previous blog I suggested ways in which museums could be part of a re-crafting of a world where climate change and peak oil has limited our capacity for economic growth. A low carbon future is imagined where prosperity relies not on an individual’s ability to consume but on his or her capacity to [...]
The Happy Museum Project looks at how the UK museum sector can respond to the challenges presented by the need for creating a more sustainable future.
Our proposition is that museums are well placed to play an active part, but that grasping the opportunity will require reimagining some key aspects of their role, both in terms of the kinds of experience they provide to their visitors and the way they relate to their collections, to their communities and to the pressing issues of the day.