The document outlines Tony Butler's Happy Museum Project which aims to make museums happier places that are sanctuaries from commercialism and focus on encounters and psychological presence. It lists 8 principles of the Happy Museum Manifesto including making people happy, pursuing mutual relationships, valuing the past and future, measuring what matters, leading innovation, thinking globally, supporting learning resilience, and finding niches. It also lists several museum commissions as part of the Happy Museum Project focusing on playfulness, landscapes of the mind, creative communities, and conversation hubs.

1. The Happy
Museum Project
Tony Butler
Director, Museum of East
Anglian Life

3. a sanctuary from commercial messages

4. a place for encounters

5. being psychologically present

6. giving back

7. Happy Museum Manifesto
1. MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY

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2. PURSUE MUTUAL RELATIONSHIPS

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3. VALUE THE ENVIRONMENT, THE
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

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4. MEASURE WHAT MATTERS

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5. LEAD ON INNOVATION TOWARDS
TRANSITION

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6. THINK GLOBAL AND BE NETWORKED

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7. SUPPORT LEARNING FOR RESILIENCE

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8. FIND YOUR NICHE

15. Happy Museum
Commissions
Manchester Museum
The Playful Museum

16. Happy Museum
Commissions
The Lightbox Woking
Landscapes of the Mind

17. Happy Museum
Commissions
The Cinema Museum,
Lambeth
Creative Community
Curators

18. Happy Museum
Commissions
London Transport Museum
The Conversation Hub

19. Happy Museum
Commissions
Godalming Museum
Collecting Connections

20. Happy Museum
Commissions
The Story Museum Oxford
Happy from the Beginning

21. The Happy Museum
Project
Website
www.happymuseumproject.org.uk
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