Mental health

Guide | Cataloguing distressing collections

Hannah Nagle shares her experiences developing a mental health first aid kit

Q&A | ‘This exhibition challenges the Eurocentric notion of psychoanalysis’

Museums Journal gets on the couch with curator Jamie Ruers to dig deeper into an exhibition on Freud and Latin America

Case study | archaeology on prescription

Meg Barclay shares how a social prescribing project is supporting people’s mental health

It’s time for museums to address mental health

Museums and galleries could do much more to support people experiencing mental health difficulties, according to a new report

Books | The Gallery of Miracles and Madness

A hard-to-read but necessary account of how art was manipulated by Hitler to justify mass murder

Netherlands’ Museum of the Mind named European Museum of the Year

Pitt Rivers director Laura van Broekhoven receives honour for her contribution to decolonisation

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History can connect isolated people and make them feel good about themselves

Museum collections boost community engagement, says Victoria Ryves

Trendswatch | On the mind

How museums are using exhibitions and wellbeing programmes to help people improve their mental health

On Edge: Living in an Age of Anxiety, Science Gallery London

A well-chosen selection of works and artists has produced an exhibition that packs a punch