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News Climate Crisis

Science Museum climate protesters criticise ‘intimidating’ response

Group planned overnight occupation but were threatened with arrest

News Artists

Artist demands apology in RA ‘transphobia’ row

RA said it would no longer stock work by Jess de Wahls as a result of her gender critical views

News Wales

Welsh Government announces plans for museum of North Wales

Policy agenda reiterates commitment to national football museum and contemporary art gallery

Features

Story time | Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip, Perth

Social history is at the core of this people-first revamp, says Chiara Wilkinson

Features Best In Show

Best in show | Embroidered screen, 1884-85, by Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo

William Morris Gallery, London

People Statues

Q&A | ‘The aim was for the display to be a conversation starter’

The curators behind M Shed's Colston display on interpreting a piece of modern history - and dealing with the backlash

News

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News Collecting

‘Once in a generation’: Institutions join forces in bid to acquire rare private library

Sotheby’s agrees to postpone impending auction of Honresfield collection

News Covid-19

Scottish industrial museums struggling to survive

Industrial Museums Scotland survey identifies need for support

News Moves

Beamish announces new chief executive

Former museum boss resigned more than a year ago after a disciplinary hearing

News Reopening

Petersfield Museum reopens in the South Downs

£4m redevelopment included converting Victorian police station

News Anti-racism

Beyond the black square: Slow progress on sector’s anti-racist commitments

Report finds cultural institutions are taking action but ethnic diversity of staff shows little change

News Workforce

New museum and gallery apprenticeship to launch in England

First formal training route for aspiring technicians in the heritage sector

News Collections

Talbot photographs given to Bodleian Libraries on long-term loan

Images were sold at auction to private collector for $1.95m

News Fire

Community rallies round after devastating fire at Scottish Crannog Centre

Museum launches financial appeal after blaze destroys Iron Age roundhouse

News Closures

TSB backtracks on closure of world’s first savings bank museum

Initial plans were to close the site and transfer its contents to the company's HQ in Edinburgh

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Analysis

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Analysis Workforce

Workforce bears brunt of pandemic

The loss of more than 4,000 roles in museums lays bare the long-term costs of Covid

Analysis Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter: one year on

Is the museum sector making headway on its pledge to combat structural racism?

Analysis Digital

Through the looking glass: the VR revolution in museums is here

Projects like the V&A’s new Curious Alice experience are at the vanguard of a major technological shift

Analysis Governance

A new style of trustee?

Museums are seeking dynamic, entrepreneurial and imaginative trustees to help steer them through the coronavirus crisis and beyond

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Opinion

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Opinion Lgbt+

Queer museums: hidden heritage on the rise?

Myla Corvidae asks whether the sector is as committed to queer representation as it often claims

Opinion Covid-19

From uncertainty to hope

From a lengthy lockdown to an FA cup win, Leicester and its cultural venues can now see light at the end of the tunnel

Opinion Decolonising Museums

The sector is no longer unified on the subject of the British empire

We must face up to the ethical issues or the sector could be heading for a permanent schism

Opinion Brexit

Vox pop | What object would you put in the Museum of Brexit?

Lorry banners and Bollox to Brexit stickers: which artefacts best represent Britain’s departure from the EU?

Opinion Migration

We need a space where people can reflect and share experiences

Museums can be forums for conversation away from our increasingly polarised public discourse

Opinion Digital

Digital | Increase access to images of your collections

Policies must change if museums want people to use their images

Opinion Covid-19

The pandemic is an opportunity for museums to reinvent themselves

There will be fewer big exhibitions and more focus on existing collections, says Charles Saumerez Smith

Opinion Exhibitions

Challenging conventions

Interpreting and displaying collections in new ways

Opinion Learning and Engagement

Are museums failing those who need support most?

Despite huge changes in the sector in recent years, there are still striking inequalities in museum visiting

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In practice

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In practice Participation

Call for your community participation case studies

Share your experiences and advice in Museums Journal

In practice Climate Crisis

The journey to becoming a carbon neutral museum

A case study from the Dundee Museum of Transport

In practice Pop-ups

Limin-alley: a lockdown art experience in Belfast

Margaret Middleton explores the story behind this pop-up exhibition

In practice Climate Crisis

Developing climate crisis exhibitions and engagement programmes

A case study from Wakefield Museums & Castles

In practice Disability

Setting up an online family programme for children with Send

A case study from the Royal Academy

In practice Fundraising

A cross-sector approach to fundraising

The Museum of the Home shares a fundraising scheme linked to its partnership programme

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People

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People Young people

Q&A | ‘Young people define arts and culture very differently today’

We hear from key partners on the British Museum's new Where We Are... youth engagement programme

People Decolonising Museums

Working life | Zandra Yeaman

'People are willing to learn and be the change that is needed': The curator of discomfort at the Hunterian explains her role

People Moves

Moves

Comings and goings in the museum and heritage sector

People Art

Profile | Art for the people

The director of the National Gallery, Gabriele Finaldi, shares his vision as he looks forward to welcoming the public back after lockdown

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Features

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Features Feminism

Sisterhood stories

Caroline Gausden reflects on the groundbreaking work of Glasgow Women’s Library

Features Feminism

Building our rightful place in history

Holly Hotchner on the growing efforts to give women the plinth they deserve in history

Features Feminism

Where are all the women?

With studies continuing to paint a poor picture of female representation in art, Maggie Gray talks to those working to address the issue of gender imbalance in collections

Features Ireland

Telling a shared history

A century on from partition, Northern Ireland's museums are helping heal past wounds by telling history from both sides

Features Best In Show

Best in show | Copy of a physiology textbook used as an examination crib sheet, c.1970s

This tiny book made by a would-be exam cheat was perfect for the Royal College of Physicians’ online exhibition

Features Museum Of

Museum of… The Scottish Crannog Centre

Victoria Miller gets a fascinating insight into life during the iron age through the reconstruction of ancient dwellings

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Reviews

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Reviews Openings

Crafters’ companion | Crafts Council Gallery

This new creative space in London is the perfect home to showcase a rediscovered love of crafting

Reviews Temporary Exhibition

Digging up the past | Drawn from the Pits and Women in the Miners’ Strike

Two exhibitions at the National Coal Mining Museum for England delve into a rich seam of mining history

Reviews Sustainability

Carbon capture | Our Future Planet, Science Museum, London

Mechanical trees, carbon toothpaste and a yoga mat are the latest objects on display in the Science Museum

Reviews Digital

Digital reviews

From a Black history app to guided Twitter walks, we take a scroll through the latest digital content from museums

Reviews Bookshelf

On my bookshelf | The Waste Land by TS Eliot

A poem that inspired Jemma Channing to investigate heritage as a place of asylum and recovery

Reviews Benin Bronzes

Books | The Brutish Museums, by Dan Hicks

A hard-hitting case for cultural restitution and the need to recognise the impact of withholding items

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Careers guide

In practice Careers guide

Focus | Why work in museums?

Making an entrance

In practice Careers guide

The changing face of the museum sector

The challenges that new entrants will need to tackle

In practice Careers guide

Trendswatch | Distance learning

How courses and students have adapted during Covid

In practice Workforce

The benefits of work experience

Students from the University of Leicester share how virtual placements have enhanced their careers

In practice Careers guide

Guide | Making a career of it

The best ways to keep up with professional development

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