News
MGS reports growth in grantmaking, sector reach and climate action
Annual review highlights funding uplift after first year of Museum Futures programme
New Royal Marines Experience set to open in October
The £15m development will be unveiled at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
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Analysis
Financial resilience doesn’t happen by accident
Institutions can stabilise their income by integrating commercial thinking into their core decision-making and programming
All that glitters: Is the Treasure scheme losing some of its shine?
There is some disquiet about the system’s current direction of travel, despite record numbers of finds in recent years
Opinion
Listening to rising voices
Tarun Nagesh on an exhibition that showcases the diversity of contemporary art from the Asia-Pacific region
ACE’s renewed emphasis on excellence will play to the strengths of museums
The sector will have more space to emphasise its unique qualities in the next funding round, says Aysha Afridi
Getting to grips with our collections
Museums must commit to 100% inventory-level documentation ahead of their next NPO applications, says Laura Pye
The difficulties of redeveloping much-loved local authority museums
Ipswich Museum’s restoration and redevelopment promises to strike exactly the right balance between nostalgia and the 21st century, says Eleanor Mills
In practice
Case study | Addressing colonial histories
Ingrid Lewis shares how an international partnership is linking Derbyshire’s cotton mills to the island of Carriacou
Spotlight | Running successful events
A vibrant and relevant events programme is a crucial way to bring in audiences and raise income – so what’s the secret to success?
Guide | Planning seasonal events
Tapping into key seasonal moments can help boost your events programme
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Features
‘We needed a building that could be a safe space for everyone’: A museum shaped by the Troubles
Geraldine Kendall Adams visits a border museum in the Republic of Ireland that has brought healing to a divided community
A thousand years in the making: The Bayeux Tapestry loan
Geraldine Kendall Adams unpicks the logistics of moving the fragile embroidery from France to England for a historic exhibition at the British Museum
People
Q&A | ‘The disability rights movement is presumed to have been small and niche, but it was huge’
David Hevey tells us about a new digital archive dedicated to the civil rights struggle that Britain forgot
Working life | ‘I’m passionate about exploring all sides of the criminal justice system’
Simon Tansley, the director of London’s Bow Street Museum of Crime and Justice, discusses a project inspired by the writer Oscar Wilde
Profile | ‘I don’t have a typical museum background – I’m really proud of getting to where I have’
For someone who never expected to work in the sector, Helen Hartstein now has her dream job at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum
Q&A | ‘If you’re going to attract funders, you’ve got to have a big, bold ambition’
As a new SS Great Britain museum opens, CEO Andrew Edwards talks to us about his wider plans for dockyard site – and how he dealt with a media backlash against its new name
Reviews
Field of vision | Sheep Field Barn, Henry Moore Studios & Gardens, Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
The exhibition space of this world-famous sculptor has been sympathetically upgraded to embrace a more inclusive, educational environment
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Watch and listen
Radical Museums | S3E4: Nelson Cummins
Simon Stephens travels to Glasgow to meet Nelson Cummins, curator of legacies of slavery and empire at Glasgow Museums
Radical Museums | S3E3: Marian Gwyn
Sharon Heal speaks to Marian Gwyn, whose transformative initiative has worked to diversify and decolonise local museums in Wales
Radical Museums | S3E2: E-J Scott
Simon Stephens travels to south London to interview E-J Scott, founder of the Museum of Transology
Radical Museums | S3E1: William Mitchell
Sharon Heal meets William Mitchell, project director for the Action for Community Transformation (ACT) Initiative in Belfast
Radical Museums | S2E4: Agrippa Njanina
Sharon Heal travels to Belfast to meet Agrippa Njanina, a community engagement officer at National Museums Northern Ireland
Radical Museums | S2E3: Ken Paranada
Simon Stephens meets Ken Paranada, the curator of art and climate change at the Sainsbury Centre
Europe after empire
Europe after empire
Gary Younge introduces a series of articles that explore how decolonisation is being approached in European museums
‘Return the bones. Empty the museums’
Museums need to address the issue of the ancestral remains in their collections with transparency, openness and accountability, argues Dan Hicks
A whole new world
The Wereldmuseum Amsterdam has been working with artists and other creative practitioners to explore the impact of Dutch imperialism, but Carol Ann Dixon says more needs to be done to empower its own staff to contribute to meaningful change at the organisation
Representations of Blackness at Vienna’s Belvedere Museum
How Tayla Myree is bringing a much-neglected discussion to the public with her tour exploring Black iconography in the museum's artwork
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