Small museums

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

Government ‘will not neglect local museums’, pledges arts minister

Cross-party praise for smaller museums in Westminster Hall debate

Radical Museums | S3E3: Marian Gwyn

Sharon Heal speaks to Marian Gwyn, whose transformative initiative has worked to diversify and decolonise local museums in Wales

Museum of… Sir Henry Jones Museum, Llangernyw, Wales

Lynsey Ford visits the humble childhood home of a brilliant philosopher

Case study | Big brands for small museums

Bronwen Simpson shares Hat Works journey to a stronger visual identity

Q&A | “We hope to inspire the next generation of naturalists”

Steve Green shares how the Gilbert White House & Gardens, known as the birthplace of ecology, is securing its future

Nine Scottish museums to share nearly £422,000 in development funding

Museums Galleries Scotland awards grants to increase financial resilience and strengthen local connections

Tales of the unexpected

Unusual museums can be tucked away in unlikely places. John Holt talks to the people who look after these out-of-the-way venues about loneliness, plastic rats and preparing for Armageddon

Back to the future

Smaller museums are often leading the way in a flurry of activity aimed at returning looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria

Micro matters

Fiona Candlin reflects on her campervan journey around some of the UK’s smaller heritage museums as part of the Mapping Museums project

Keeping the wolf from the door

Deprived of admissions revenue, many small museums are surviving only because they have secured funding

Museum of… Cefn Mawr & District Museum, Wrexham

A community venue that is truly for the people, by the people