Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing.

As a 'place to be' - Museums are great places just to be you can sit for hours and stare and no one questions it, they are clean, full of uplifting things, timeless you can get a better perspective and then have tea in the nice cafe.

Art as a tool for health and Wellbeing was explored in various reports I read and lectures I attended on zoom, this was the most recent.

Tapies talked about his desire for his works to become talismen, he wanted to tap a head with a painting and rid his audience of their aliments.

All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing Inquiry - July 2017

'We are calling for an informed and open- minded willingness to accept that the arts can make a significant contribution to addressing a number of the pressing issues faced by our health and social care systems.'

Rt Hon. Lord Howarth of Newport Co-Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. In the full report, we present the findings of two years of research, evidence-gathering and discussions with patients, health and social care professionals, artists and arts administrators, academics, people in local government, ministers, other policy-makers and parliamentarians from both Houses of Parliament. Our partners in this Inquiry have been the National Alliance for Arts, Health and Wellbeing, King’s College London, the Royal Society for Public Health and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity. We are extremely grateful to our funders, Wellcome, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. More than 300 people have contributed to this process, and we are profoundly indebted to them for the insight and knowledge that they have shared with us. We have been privileged to hear moving personal testimonies from individuals who have experienced remarkable improvements in their own health and wellbeing from engagement with the arts.

In what ways can museums, gardens and libraries be good for our health? | CHWA

(https://socialprescribing.phc.ox.ac.uk/files/resources/osprnpolicydocfinal.pdf).