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Re-imagining the Happy Museum
Tony Butler
Director, Museum of East Anglian Life
Resilience Happiness
Social Enterprise
Flow Social Capital
Participation Trust
Sanctuaries Rallying Points
1.Economic Wellness: (consumer debt, average income to
consumer price index ratio and income distribution)
2.Environmental Wellness: (pollution, noise and traffic )
3.Physical Wellness: (physical health metrics such as severe
illnesses)
4.Mental Wellness: (usage of antidepressants and rise or decline
of psychotherapy patients)
5.Workplace Wellness: (labour metrics such as jobless claims, job
change, workplace complaints and lawsuits)
6.Social Wellness: (safety, divorce rates, complaints of domestic
conflicts and family lawsuits, public lawsuits, crime rates)
7.Political Wellness: (quality of local democracy, individual
freedom, and foreign conflicts.)
Gross National Happiness Kingdom of Bhutan 1972
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Our principles
STEWARDSHIP
We prize our distinctive and precious assets; our landscape,
historic buildings and collections, people and livestock. We will care
for and show them off to the standards they deserve.
PARTICIPATION
We’d rather not do it on our own. We welcome all members of the community to get involved, be
active and exchange knowledge
SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
We want to be a resilient organisation. We’ll be opportunistic
and creative in using our unique assets and surroundings to help
people fulfil their ambitions.
MINDFULNESS We encourage curiosity and
consideration. Our work should inspire and entertain, be playful and
thoughtful and help people take more notice about the world
around them.
For every £1 invested we gain over £4 of social value
Valuing and encouraging happiness and emotional investment
Joint local approaches to progression
Hidden value of family outcomes
Key investment in cultural heritage
What makes people happy ?
Fairness
Helping Others
Respect
Adaptability Trust
Meaning
Status
Asset-Based Community Development
… takes as its starting point the existing assets and strengths of community, particularly the strengths inherent in community based associations and other social networks. It defines assets not just as physical capital assets such as buildings but the distinctive qualities of the environment and the skills of people within the community.
Mathie, A. & Cunningham, G. (2003)
[It is ]the free voluntary associations which strengthen civil society by creating Habits of the Heart
Alexis de Tocqville 1835
Letting people define for themselves
what’s special about a place, and what
matters about it... That’s the key.
Government agencies and large bodies
can’t stand this. They want to define
things; they want to keep tabs... only
ordinary people can make ordinary
places matter
Sue Clifford, Common Ground
Co-production
The home base of the economy is the household, the neighbourhood, the community and civil society. That is the economy that co-production seems to rebuild and to reconstruct.
Edgar S Cahn 2006
The Miller and the Millwright, the harness-maker and the tailor show how the old village community was dovetailed together by the nature of the work
George Ewart Evans
Positive Psychology
• Positive Emotion The Pleasant Life • Eudaemonic Flow The Good Life • Using your strengths to
create something greater than you are
The Meaningful Life • We would spend less time
treating mental illness if we spend more time promoting mental wellness.
Martin Seligman
The Five Ways to Well-Being
Connect
Be Active
Take Notice
Keep Learning
Give
a sanctuary from commercial messages
a place for encounters
being psychologically present
giving back
1. MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY
Happy Museum Manifesto
2. PURSUE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS
Happy Museum Manifesto
3. VALUE THE ENVIRONMENT, THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Happy Museum Manifesto
4. MEASURE WHAT MATTERS
Happy Museum Manifesto
5. LEAD ON INNOVATION TOWARDS TRANSITION
Happy Museum Manifesto
6. THINK GLOBAL AND BE NETWORKED
Happy Museum Manifesto
7. SUPPORT LEARNING FOR RESILIENCE
Happy Museum Manifesto
8. FIND YOUR NICHE
Happy Museum Manifesto
Happy Museum Commissions Manchester Museum
The Playful Museum
Happy Museum Commissions The Lightbox Woking
Landscapes of the Mind
Happy Museum Commissions The Cinema Museum, Lambeth
Creative Community Curators
Happy Museum Commissions London Transport Museum
The Conversation Hub
Happy Museum Commissions Godalming Museum Collecting Connections
Happy Museum Commissions The Story Museum Oxford
Happy from the Beginning
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