For Museums

In a restless world that rarely pauses, museums offer a space to stand still with art and with yourself. Mindfulness in Museums turns collections into pathways to presence, inviting visitors to encounter both the artwork and their inner world with greater care and awareness, fostering mental health and wellbeing.

MiM is a practice-led approach emerging from the museum field.
Young adults asked for mindfulness in the museum.
That became the first pilot. Today, the program reaches a broad and diverse audience
— from museum visitors to doctors, medical students and caregivers.

“Mindfulness in Museums ® is about the reciprocity between people and artworks—at the level of being. It moves from art egagement to art experience. It is a collective, individual experience. Different from approaches such as VTS, ABL, and Slow Looking, another person’s experience does not colour mine, nor does it determine my process.
And yet, at the same time, you feel: I am not alone”.

— Anouk de Vos, Head of Public & Education, Museum Catharijneconvent

Mindfulness Based Approach

Mindfulness in Museums turns museum collections into a source for mental health, resilience, and human flourishing in our communities. Through mindfulness meditation, we create space for slowing down, attention, and calm.

→ Discover our approach and background

Mindfulness in your Museum

Together with you, we develop a mindfulness-based program guided by certified Mindfulness in Museums trainers. We also train museum teams in mindfulness-informed art engagement, enabling the qualities of mindfulness to be applied in guided tours and public programs.

→ Discover the possibilities

Professional development

Do you work with art and mental health? We offer training, mentoring and supervision for professionals who want to work in the field of Art & Health, Culture & Health and Culture & Care. Our work is grounded in practice, research and international experience.

→ Explore our training, mentoring and supervision programmes

Impact & experiences

In collaboration with researchers and museum teams, we build evidence around what works. MiM shows how art and awareness together can set something in motion. Research demonstrates the impact of MiM on mental wellbeing.

→ Results in numbers and lived experience

With roots in the Netherlands and connections worldwide, MiM brings together museums and mindfulness professionals across borders.

We train teachers nationally and internationally, connect museums with professional expertise, and build a growing hub where art, mindfulness and mental health meet.