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News Recovery

Culture can ‘supercharge’ northern recovery, say cross-party MPs

Report calls for investment in culture to aid economic growth and levelling up agenda

News Independent Museums

Museum of East Anglian Life to become the Food Museum

Name change is part of masterplan to make the museum more relevant

News Communities

Reach out to care-experienced communities, urges Foundling director

Museum highlights impact of its work with young care leavers during royal visit

Opinion

Barriers to equity and diversity must not be rebuilt

Change is vital post-Covid

In practice Conservation

Restoring Robert Scott Lauder’s Christ Teacheth Humility

Despite the pandemic, this large-scale restoration project drew on digital exposure to engage audiences

People Q&a

Q&A | ‘We wanted to use this period to come back bolder and more beautiful’

Charleston director Nathaniel Hepburn is looking to the future after the challenges of the Covid pandemic

News

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News Capital projects

National Railway Museum unveils York and Shildon schemes

Projects are part of the organisation's Vision 2025 redevelopment strategy

News Leadership

Clare Lilley named director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Founding director Peter Murray is retiring in March after 45 years

News Emergency Funding

New £1m emergency funding for Scotland’s independent museums

Museums Galleries Scotland announces funding opportunities as it consults on national strategy

News Digital

Funding awarded to develop digital archive of Atlantic slave trades

Project among 12 collaborations between US and UK universities to create digital tools for culture and heritage

News Moves

Douglas Gilmore named managing director of Museum of London Docklands

East London venue will serve key role during closure of London Wall site

News Repatriation

Great North Museum: Hancock seeks to repatriate Benin bronze

Stakeholders agree to take proactive approach to returning brass stave

News Covid-19

Sector reports deep concerns over impact of Omicron wave

Latest tranches of emergency funding will be vital, but museums are hoping for more long-term solutions

News Funding

Museums secure Wolfson Foundation grants

Funding supports a wide range of redevelopments, including new galleries and interpretation

News Access

Poole Museum receives £2.4m development grant

Two-year project will add new galleries and visitor facilities

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Analysis

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Analysis Activism

A new age of activism?

As museums challenge government immigration policy, some say it’s time for the sector as a whole to speak up for communities

Analysis Capital projects

Positive thinking

Northern Ireland | Despite a difficult period for culture, ambitious initiatives are fuelling hopes of recovery, says Geraldine Kendall Adams

Analysis Industrial

Mining a rich seam

Britain’s history is intrinsically linked to heavy industry. But how do you make it relevant and engaging to today’s audiences?

Analysis Accessibility

The future must be all inclusive

Cultural institutions have an opportunity to reshape their practice to cater for the needs of vulnerable groups, says Geraldine Kendall Adams

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Opinion

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Opinion

Promoting understanding and respect

Curating the Troubles is a learning process

Opinion Digital

Digital | The potential of AI

Making more of collections data

Opinion Decolonising Museums

Policy column | MA backs decolonisation efforts

New guidance supports an open and transparent examination of Britain’s colonial history

Opinion Temporary Exhibition

Vox pop | Are there too many temporary exhibitions?

Three museum professionals respond to our question

Opinion Freelance

Freelancers are fundamental to sector’s recovery

Value and support these workers

Opinion

Who should control the power to represent?

Museum X founder Sandra Shakespeare reflects on 2021

Opinion Climate Crisis

Editorial | We can’t shirk the climate crisis

Tough decisions need to be made

Opinion Digital

Digital | Identify your needs

Driving up digital capability

Opinion Front of House

Policy column | Front-of-house deserve better treatment

MA to launch Charter for Change

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In practice

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In practice Health And Wellbeing

How the arts can help support addiction recovery

Joanne Mills shares a collaborative project in Stoke-on-Trent

In practice Immersive

Trendswatch | Using audio to create immersive experiences

Deborah Mulhearn explores how audio can transform the traditional museum experience

In practice Communities

Guide | Reimbursing participants

Sarah Briggs shares how museums can reimburse people taking part in participatory projects

In practice Immersive

In Focus | Sensory overload

Immersive experiences can add significant value to a museum visit, but institutions must handle them carefully

In practice Immersive

In Focus | Creating immersive experiences

Deborah Mulhearn on how devising the right experience can be memorable for a museum and its visitors

In practice Conservation

Share your conservation case studies

Museums Journal is looking for examples of good practice and innovative work

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People

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People Decolonising Museums

Profile | Opening the doors

Geraldine Kendall Adams talks to the Humboldt Forum’s Hartmut Dorgerloh about the creation of Berlin’s newest cultural powerhouse

People Workforce

Moves

The latest appointments in museums, galleries and heritage

People Covid-19

Working life | Roberto Portela Miguez

How natural history museums are working together on a digital bat library that will support virus research

People Climate Crisis

Profile | Climate for change

Sara Kassam talks to Rebecca Atkinson about her new role as the Museums Association’s climate champion trustee

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Features

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Features Best In Show

Best in show | Self-portrait, c.1960, by Hubert Arthur Finney

The Lightbox, Woking

Features Museum Of

Museum of… Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein, Bath

Eleanor Mills finds the author’s infamous literary creation is vividly brought to life in a monster museum packed with scares

Features Art

Spain | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres

Eleanor Mills talks to the pioneering collector immortalised in a gallery of artworks she has donated

Features Museums Change Lives

We can be heroes

This year’s Museums Change Lives Awards paid tribute to the institutions and individuals that have made a truly heroic impact in their communities. John Holt talks to the winners

Features Photography

Hidden truths

Photographer and activist Red Saunders tells Simon Stephens the vision behind his Hidden Project, which shines a light on historic struggles for social justice

Features oral history

Let’s hear it for oral history

Rob Perks celebrates the pioneering work in oral history that has transformed the way museums engage with audiences

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Reviews

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Reviews Digital

Digital reviews

A virtual exhibition, a new podcast and a video streaming site to check out

Reviews Health And Wellbeing

Books | The healing power of art

The increasing importance of art therapy in museums finally gets the serious treatment it deserves

Reviews Bookshelf

On my bookshelf | The Other Hogarth: The Aesthetics of Difference

Fanning the flames for Hogarth's love language

Reviews

Tomorrow people | Museum of Innovation, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Belfast

An inventive look at the people whose creations changed the world will inspire a new generation

Reviews Redevelopment

Living history | David Livingstone Birthplace Museum, Blantyre, Glasgow

This revamped venue aims to explore and decolonise the narrative around the famed physician and missionary

Reviews Industrial

Industrial evolution | Museum of Making, Derby Silk Mill

This former factory builds on the area’s rich creative heritage. By Simon Stephens

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Museum X Takeover

Opinion Museum X

Editorial | Out of many

Presenting the first takeover edition in the history of Museums Journal

Features Decolonising Museums

You’ve got to get your history right

Tehmina Goskar traces the roots behind years of misrepresentation of social and cultural history in museums and argues change can only come from within

Analysis Black history

Out of many, one museum

Curating content that allows people of colour to see and be themselves might one day give them a sense of belonging, says Carol Ann Dixon

Features Museum X

Building the future

Leading voices from across the globe share their insights and experiences of their efforts to advance the world’s understanding and knowledge of Black history

In practice Communities

Focus | Celebrating local African-Caribbean culture and our stories

Aspire Black Suffolk aims to create a long-lasting legacy to the Power of Stories exhibition

Reviews Art

A cut above

Chiedza Mhondoro reflects on Somerset House’s pioneering Get Up, Stand Up Now show and why it attracted such a diverse audience

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