Community wellbeing
How museums can make a positive impact on people and communities
Enhancing health and wellbeing
Museums enhance our quality of life and improve our mental and physical health.
Museums work in partnership with health and wellbeing organisations to support a range of people in society with different needs.
Meaningful participation and volunteering promotes wellbeing and self-confidence and can broaden the horizons of participants, the museum and the public.
Case studies
Report | Creatively Minded at the Museum
Exploring how museums can engage creatively with people with mental health problems
Glasgow Museums
Weekday Wow Factor discos and walks
University of Edinburgh Museums
Prescribe Culture: heritage for health and social care
Scottish Maritime Museum
Skylark IX recovery project
Cynon Valley Museum
Building a partnership for change
Monmouthshire Museums Service
Intergenerational memory cafes
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales
Art in Covid-19 field hospitals
National Museums Northern Ireland
Live Well
Consortium of heritage organisations
Linenopolis
Northern Ireland Museums Council
Dementia friendly museums
Mid & East Antrim Borough Council
Carnlough Community Hub
Newcastle Castle
Capturing medieval history through film
Roman Baths
Autism Friendly Award
National Maritime Museum, Cornwall
Working with wounded veterans
National Museums Northern Ireland
Supporting mental health in parents of young children
The British Library
Between the lines
Apropa Cultura (Closer to Culture)
Catalonia, Spain
La Panera Centre for Contemporary Arts
Lights to be seen
Manchester Art Gallery
Open Doors
Museum of Liverpool
From there to here
Pallant House Gallery
Evaluating social impact
October Gallery Education
Working with special needs in an art gallery
North Lincolnshire Council
Do Something Different
Orleans House Gallery
The Octagon Club
Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery
Dementia partnership
Glasgow Museums
Contact the Elderly
Telegraph Museum, Porthcurno
Engaging seniors through arts and crafts
Royal Cornwall Museum
Engaging care home residents with memories and music
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
Reaching out to older people living in care
Scottish Football Museum
A reminiscence project based on sport targeted at people with dementia
The Infirmary, University of Worcester
Exploring ideas of home with those living with dementia
Glasgow Museums
Developing memory walls
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter
The Living Each Season project, a dementia-friendly arts group
Holburne Museum, Bath
Recollection: a project for people with dementia and their carers
Orleans House Gallery, Richmond
Imagine: engaging people with dementia
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Working with people with dementia
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
Dementia Friendly Day
National Museums Liverpool
A dementia-awareness training programme using museum objects
Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service
Engaging with people experiencing homelessness
The Tank Museum
Engaging prisoners as volunteers
Perceptions 2016
The Art of Citizenship