ABSTRACT
The museum sector is beginning to see their work in terms of the well-being benefits it can bring. Well-being is an ambiguous term which is individualised and personally constructed and this chapter explores questions surrounding the work of the museum sector including: Can museums’ subtle work on well-being be measured? Can museums’ experience in evaluation and articulating bring value to the measurement of well-being? It examines well-being in five health care contexts via a cultural well-being intervention adapted to the capabilities of patients and the health care environment, using mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, psychological scales and grounded theory, to consider ways of working and the well-being benefits accrued.
