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Museums tackling loneliness

In rural areas such as Cornwall, the pandemic has exacerbated loneliness, with vulnerable people losing their sense of community. Emmie Kell thinks museums can be part of the solution.

Emmie Kell
5 min read

It’s said that loneliness is worse for health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day. We’d started to understand just how destructive a lack of social connection could be for health and wellbein...

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