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Targeted engagement by museums with people with mental health problems is relatively rare, despite a lot of interest in work around wellbeing and a strong commitment to inclusivity. However, targeted work is being done, and at the heart of this report are 16 self-reported case studies by museums who are taking a lead in this area. They include three mental health specialist museums:
- Glenside Hospital Museum, Bristol
- Mental Health Museum, Wakefield
- Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London
And 13 non-specialist museums:
- The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury
- Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
- Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea
- The Foundling Museum, London
- Glasgow Museums
- The Holburne, Bath
- Leeds Museums and Galleries
- The Lightbox, Woking
- National Galleries of Scotland
- Salisbury Museum
- Towner Eastbourne
- Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums
- University of Edinburgh (Prescribe Culture)
You can also hear some of the museum staff involved in these programmes talk about their work in this series of specially commissioned podcasts by the podcaster and mental health advocate, Halina Rifai.
