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Cooper Hewitt’s new Design and Healing exhibition

WEBDesign and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics, is an exhibition examining design’s role in times of crisis and opens today in the Design Process …

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Wellbeing with Vincent

WEBThe Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is home to Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings, drawings and letters. Mental health is a part of his story and there were well …

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The Representation of Mental Illness in Museums

WEBIn 2016 the Mental Health Foundation released a document titled Fundamental Facts about Mental Illness 2016, which stated that problems concerning …

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How Museums can become spaces for care

WEBThe Creative Carers Programme offered by the Trust give carers a therapeutic space to create, with participants commenting that it “helps you escape for a …

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What are Mindful Museums and how can they help us with our …

WEBMindfulness is the process of paying more attention to the present. By practising mindfulness techniques, a person can learn to slow their thoughts. It helps …

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Museums and healthcare providers: a partnership to drive positive

WEBOnce upon a time front line healthcare was heavily weighted towards the treatment of physical ailments and diseases of the body. And while most GPs and other …

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MuseumNext : Museums, Health & Wellbeing Summit 2024

WEBThe MuseumNext conferences, whether it is live or digital, always manage to gather a great variety of people and speakers. It is always very accessible, held in a …

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Reminiscence and adult learning for elderly audiences in open-air

WEBThe importance of reminiscence. Reminiscence therapy is a useful tool for working with dementia sufferers. Reminiscence means sharing remembered memories …

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The role of museums in supporting the wellbeing of children and

WEBAt a time when children’s mental health appears to be at a low ebb, museums will continue to have a role to play in transforming children’s lives and …

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What social prescribing can do for museums

WEBThe social impact of museums-on-prescription can help individuals improve aspects of their health and wellbeing, in a way that’s directly accessible from their …

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How can museums improve their staff wellbeing

WEBBy investing time and resources into workplace wellbeing, museum staff and the wider institution can benefit dramatically. Simply asking the question: “Do our …

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How museums are offering meditation and mindfulness sessions

WEBThe Rubin Museum of Art has even taken their mindfulness sessions online. The museum hosts 45-minute-long, live mindfulness meditation programs influenced by …

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How can museums embrace art therapy techniques

WEBWhat is art therapy? As the name suggests, art therapy brings together art and psychotherapy, exercising the belief that there are mental health benefits involved …

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Supporting museum staff in a trauma infused world

WEBAt The Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington D.C, supporting the wellbeing of staff took on greater significance during a 20 th …

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How Museums Are Reaching Out to People With Dementia

WEBAustralia’s Museum of Contemporary Art spearheaded an art therapy program called Artful from March 2016 to October 2018. This research program aimed to explore whether …

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How museums are rethinking disability representation

WEBThe institution developed and ran the Rethinking Disability Representation in Museums and Galleries (RDR) initiative to cultivate change in how disability is …

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