Socially-Engaged Museum Practice

When we talk about well-being we are in essence talking about a socially-engaged practice. We take the phrase ‘socially-engaged’ from the term ‘engaged buddhist’ as attributed to the Buddhist teacher Thích Nhất Hạn; in that the aim is to collectively apply the teachings and practices in our lives to undo systems that create suffering and injustice. We must do these […]

Happening Then

In our book ‘Museums and Well-being‘ (out now through Routledge!) we make note of an event that happened at the Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, with Ram Dass. We thought it might be fun to share the image (above) of this event. We found the image of the instagram account of Ram Dass (@babaramdass). It was really great to […]