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Profile | ‘Museums shouldn’t be afraid of income-generation’

Rebecca Atkinson talks to Sarah Hayes, the director of the Birmingham Conservation Trust and the Coffin Works, about breathing life into heritage buildings in the city

Profile | ‘Technology can isolate people – a museum is the antidote to that’

Jo Quinton Tulloch, director of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, talks about the future of the venue, the city and the sector

Profile | ‘Theme parks are fantastic ways of telling stories – so are museums’

The chief executive of Portsmouth’s Mary Rose Trust, Dominic Jones, entered the museum sector seven years ago, but now finally feels as though he belongs in it

Profile | ‘Everyone was like “Oh my god, he’s actually serious”’

Jago Cooper, director of the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, explains why he took an unorthodox approach to transforming the museum

Profile | ‘One of the things that is critical to our mission is to help people find their voice’

Clare Barlow, the director of People’s History Museum in Manchester, on democracy, speaking out and hope

Profile | ‘This story gives people a reason to come to the region and see its beauty’

As a festival launches in Tees Valley to celebrate the bicentenary of the first public rail journey, the event's director Niccy Hallifax tells us about the railway's role in regeneration, revolution – and even the advent of universal time

Profile | ‘Who were the real voices of Manchester?’

Sook-Kyung Lee, the director of the Whitworth art gallery, on rebalancing the art historical narrative

Profile | ‘We can all get dewy-eyed over Mallard, but that’s not helping us into the future’

Judith McNicol, the director of the National Railway Museum, is looking ahead with confidence, says Simon Stephens

Profile | ‘The best thing about small organisations is that you can do things much, much quicker’

Simon Stephens talks to Annette MacTavish about her work at the Museum of Cornish Life

Portrait of a nation

Richard Wendorf, the director of the American Museum and Gardens in Bath, on showing off the US in the UK

Trust proof

Janita Bagshawe, the head of Brighton’s Royal Pavilion & Museums, on moving to trust status

All fired up

Sarah Hardy, the curator-manager of the De Morgan Foundation, tells Eleanor Mills what ignited her passion for arts and crafts