Museums on Prescription
Researchers from Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê and Canterbury Christ Church University, with seven partner museums situated in central London and across Kent, investigated the value of museum encounters in social prescribing in the three-year AHRC-funded project comprising two phases. Phase 1 reviewed existing social prescribing schemes and Phase 2 set up the novel museums-based social prescribing scheme. Museums on Prescription connected 115 socially isolated and lonely older people referred through local authority social care and psychological services, and third sector organizations, to 10-week museum-based programmes of creative and co-productive activities.
Awards
Museums on Prescription won the Museums + Heritage Award for ‘Educational Initiative’ and two Royal Society of Public Health Awards, one for ‘Health & Wellbeing’ for ‘Arts and Health’ and a special commendation from Public Health England for ‘Sustainable Development'.
Read our review of social prescribing schemes: Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Social Prescribing Review 2015
Read our practice guidance: Museums on Prescription: A guide to working with older people