Wellbeing

Heledd Fychan named new Welsh culture minister

Former MA board member promises increased investment as she joins Plaid Cymru’s first cabinet

Guide | Cataloguing distressing collections

Hannah Nagle shares her experiences developing a mental health first aid kit

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Creative activities play a role in healthcare

They improve wellbeing and patient outcomes, says Caroline Hamson

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Editorial | Happy talk

Museums are great places to foster happiness, writes Simon Stephens

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Museum staff’s emotional wellbeing is not a side issue

The emotional complexities of roles aren’t recognised, say Jennie Morgan and Anna Woodham

Emotional demands of some types of museum work are ‘growing in intensity’

Research explores how UK museum professionals articulate, experience and utilise emotions

Q&A | ‘Despite an increase in spontaneous memorials, little attention is paid to their impact’

Kostas Arvanitis on a new study that aims to support museums looking to collect material from spontaneous memorials

Association for Art History launches wellbeing survey for art curators

Survey builds on research carried out by the MA last year

Guide | Building successful wellbeing programmes

Five things to consider when creating wellbeing programmes

Case study | Creating safe spaces for communities

The Museum of Homelessness shares how it has invested in relationships with its community

Focus | New approaches to wellbeing

Holly Black looks at how to ensure health and wellbeing programmes protect participants, staff and volunteers

Case study | archaeology on prescription

Meg Barclay shares how a social prescribing project is supporting people’s mental health