The Lightbox, Woking Conference, Friday 28th June 2013, 10.00am-4.30pm Landscapes of the Mind: The Art of Wellbeing This is a 1-day Conference exploring some of the relationships between, on the one hand, the appreciation and creation of artworks –…
Dr. Daniel Fujiwara radio interview on The Voice of Russia
On April 24th, ‘Happiness Economist‘ Dr. Daniel Fujiwara was interviewed by The Voice of Russia World Service in a special programme on Maria Miller’s recent speech on value and the arts entitled, ‘Culture Secretary: Arts Must Prove their Worth.’ Fujiwara…
The Happy Museum Project – New Commission Fund Launched
Happy Museum is delighted to announce a third open application fund available to English museums and a new fund open to museums in Wales. This funding is available to museums who demonstrate they can promote thinking around happiness and…
Report on April’s Happy Museum Open Workshops
On April 9th and 16th, the Happy Museum Project (HMP) held Open Workshops in Newcastle and Birmingham. Staged in the Great Northern Museum and The Fazeley Studios respectively, the venues providing magnificent settings for a rigorous two days of…
Sustainability in North West Museums – A blog by Anna Bunney, Manchester Museum
Bees on the roof of Manchester Art Gallery, Love Food Hate Waste Roman food recipes from the Grosvenor Museum in Chester and monitoring electricity use in the Victorian buildings of Warrington Museum are all sustainability actions being taken by Museums…
Happy Museums are good for you – New Research report
The Happy Museum Project wants museums to play an active part in a sustainable future, by fostering wellbeing that doesn’t cost the Earth. So it’s helpful to have the proof that museums do make you happy, in the form of…
Experimenting with Object Handling at IWM North – report 3 of 3
Here is some information about the final two object handling models that we tested over February Half Term. 3. The third model continued in the playful vein, with visitors being invited to find replica objects from the IWM handling…
Experimenting with Object Handling at IWM North – report 2 of 3
Following on from our earlier sessions, the other four models were also unleashed on an unsuspecting public during February half term! Here is some information about the first two models with reflections about the second two models to follow. 1.…
How do you link the past with the present in Museum Displays? Provocation posed by Alison Pattison, Godalming Museum
We met to discuss how we might link the past with the present in museum displays, a question which touches on several Happy Museum themes – ‘connect’, ‘mutual relationships’, ‘active citizens’, ‘curate the past, present and future’. Joining in the…
Experimenting with Object Handling at IWM North – report 1 of 3
Our Happy Museum project is concerned with trialling and evaluating different object handling methods and looking at how we can create more meaningful conversations with our visitors around them. During a rather cold and snowy February we trialled our six…