This is an edited extract from a recent post on the blog of Tony Butler, director of the Museum of East Anglian Life
http://tonybutler1.wordpress.com/
“There is much to reflect upon following the Happy Museum symposium at Snape in Suffolk. In the coming weeks, the Happy Museum project team and commissions will be reporting in greater depth.
They’ll interrogate the Happy Museum Manifesto and ask how museums and heritage could be in the vanguard of reimagining a society whose values are based on wellbeing and sustainability rather than those of materialism and inexorable growth.
The symposium also threw up some interesting challenges to the cultural sector beyond the immediate issues of wellbeing and resource equity.
[For example] Why has the dominant radical social history paradigm in many museums been so poor in linking social justice with resource equity and climate change? (M-Shed in Bristol is a notable exception).”
http://tonybutler1.wordpress.com/
“There is much to reflect upon following the Happy Museum symposium at Snape in Suffolk. In the coming weeks, the Happy Museum project team and commissions will be reporting in greater depth.
They’ll interrogate the Happy Museum Manifesto and ask how museums and heritage could be in the vanguard of reimagining a society whose values are based on wellbeing and sustainability rather than those of materialism and inexorable growth.
The symposium also threw up some interesting challenges to the cultural sector beyond the immediate issues of wellbeing and resource equity.
[For example] Why has the dominant radical social history paradigm in many museums been so poor in linking social justice with resource equity and climate change? (M-Shed in Bristol is a notable exception).”
