A fortnight ago I was invited to present a session about Happy Museum project at the 2012 Swedish Museums Association Conference in Gothenburg. The conference theme explored how museums could be for the ‘here and now’. Three timely keynote speakers reminded delegates how culture, to paraphrase Brecht, could be both hammer and mirror inspiring and [...]

Here is a post by Abigail Tripp from Hapy Museum Commission at The Cinema Museum -  Creative Community Curators I just had the most amazing session at the Imperial War Museum about object dialogue boxes. They are amazing and perfect for what the Creative Community Curators want to do The Cinema Museum.  They want to [...]

Here’s a great piece about the recent GEM London event by our own Sian Thurgood of the London Transport Museum’s Happy Museum Commission I looked forward with anticipation to the GEM London event Happiness and Wellbeing in Museums. One, because Happiness and Wellbeing and the role of museums and heritage is a subject close to my heart. [...]

Back in January I went to another Action for Happiness event, having previously blogged about my take onHenry Stewart’s Happy Manifesto back in November.  This time, it was new economics foundationstatistician and Happy Planet Index guru Nic Marks. I don’t want to tell you all of what Nic said: he does this very well for himself on TED. Also, it [...]

A blog from Hannah Guthrie of the London Transport Museum Commission Project about her experience at a recent Operation Green Museum event. One concern expressed at the Happy Museum symposium in Suffolk a couple of weeks ago was the potential disconnect between the concepts of wellbeing and social sustainability versus that of environmental sustainability. It [...]