News
National Lottery Heritage Fund sets out £1.4bn investment priorities for next three years
Support for protecting at-risk collections and understanding climate impacts
Scottish Government backs restoration of People’s Palace and Glasgow School of Art
Cautious welcome for cultural commitments in Holyrood’s new programme for government
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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 | Embedding accessibility into the visitor experience
National Galleries of Scotland shares its work integrating accessible measures at its sites
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?
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Features
Climate action | Sewing seeds of hope
A deep-dive into how ecological art has moved from the creative fringes into the mainstream, generating a positive public response
Climate action | ‘We’re turning cultural waste into community assets’
Museums and galleries are seeking to become an integral part of local ecosystems
People
Q&A | ‘We do not see immersive experiences replacing museums, but broadening access to cultural heritage’
Museums Journal meets the chief executive of DEM Museums, a global pioneer of the immersive exhibition model
Q&A | ‘It is a salutary reminder of the minutiae that ultimately shapes the course of history’
A new display on HMS Belfast examines the decision-making process at the heart of world war two’s D-day operations
Q&A | ‘I have great joy in working with artists to realise the visions that they have’
What is it really like curating a show with Ai Weiwei? Museums Journal sits down with Low Kee Hong, the creative director at Factory International in Manchester, to find out
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
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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