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Jan 14, 2016 | by Centre

Culture, museums and wellbeing

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Our evidence programme on Culture and Sport will help us to understand how we can improve wellbeing through cultural and sporting activities – involvement in music, visual arts, our leisure, heritage and physical activities.

→case study: If: Volunteering for wellbeing in the heritage sector 

There is a lot of interest in this area. Here are a few organisations and upcoming events:

→ Find out what they are doing – AESOP’s Dance to Health case study

 There a11059740_1616805768536236_8313541979095342044_nre thousands of museums for art and science around the world, but not one Museum of Happiness. We’d like to see museums where children and adults can enjoy and explore the art and science of happiness.

Shamash Aldina, co-founder Museum of Happiness

  book here 

 

 

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