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News Museum Definition

Icom publishes two proposed museum definitions

International body unveils new wording three years after first proposal led to ideological rift

News Repatriation

National Museums NI repatriates objects from Hawai’i

Items comprise ancestral human remains and sacred objects

News Funding

DCMS/Wolfson £4m fund opens for applications

Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund is available to organisations in England

Features Health And Wellbeing

Standing up to cancer

How the Francis Crick Institute gave its Outwitting Cancer exhibition the personal treatment

Opinion Black history

How traditional African technologies can create holistic repair

Exploring capitalism, reparatory justice and collective economics at the Museum of London Docklands

Analysis Education And Learning

Could museums play a more ambitious and creative role in education?

A study that concluded museum visits do not improve GCSE results has put the focus on the evolving relationship between education and museums

News

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News Emya

Netherlands’ Museum of the Mind named European Museum of the Year

Pitt Rivers director Laura van Broekhoven receives honour for her contribution to decolonisation

News Art Fund

Shortlist revealed for Art Fund Museum of the Year

Five finalists in the running to take home £100,000 prize

News Arts Council England

Arts Council England awards £22.7m to 66 organisations

Successful recipients of the Capital Investment Programme include a new museum on the Isles of Scilly and Firstsite

News National strategy

MGS launches survey to help define next national strategy

Body also opens applications for two funding streams

News

Kim Kardashian sparks conservation debate in Marilyn Monroe dress

Poll: Is it ever acceptable for historically significant fashion to be reworn?

News Restitution

Smithsonian puts ethics at the forefront of new returns policy

Restitution claims will consider ethical concerns over legal circumstances of acquisition

News Capital projects

Tate Liverpool to undergo revamp

Gallery appoints 6a Architects to redesign its spaces

News Digital

Digital Heritage Hub seeks to answer sector’s digital FAQs

Initiative to empower heritage organisations to boost their digital capability

News Conservation

Concern over EU plan to require new permits for the handling of lead

Initiative would make lead a substance subject to special authorisation

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Analysis

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Analysis National strategy

The big picture

Scotland's first national museum strategy launched 10 years ago - but how have events from the past decade shifted priorities?

Analysis Repatriation

Back to the future

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

Analysis Front of House

On the front line

A new charter will aim to address the low morale among visitor experience teams

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

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Opinion

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Opinion Mental Health

History can connect isolated people and make them feel good about themselves

Museum collections boost community engagement, says Victoria Ryves

Opinion Ahrc

Why cultural heritage matters now more than ever

It must be valued in our quest for a better future

Opinion Levelling Up

Supporting the north’s cultural sector will help level up society

Implementing the Case for Culture report

Opinion

Adopting new charging models

Flexible pricing for exhibitions and online talks pays off

Opinion Domestic abuse

Raising awareness of domestic abuse

Cultural venues have an important role to play in tackling this issue

Opinion Levelling Up

Editorial | Rhetoric won’t level things up

Power needs to be devolved

Opinion Anti-racism

It’s not enough to pay lip-service to being anti-racist

The true test of commitment is what we do, as well as what we say

Opinion Learning and Engagement

Vox pop | How has Covid-19 affected your relationship with schools?

Three museum professionals respond to our question

Opinion Digital

Digital | Reaching a wider audience

Connecting young people with their heritage

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In practice

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In practice Conservation

The guide | Live conservation

Miranda Brain and Myles Mears on a revealing project to conserve a historic painting in full public view

In practice Learning and Engagement

Sensory Journeys: creating digital storytelling sessions for children

South Shields Museum shares the aims and outcomes of this immersive digital project

In practice Exhibitions

Learning the ropes: redesigning the new Ropery Gallery at the Historic Dockyard Chatham

Telling the history of ropework can pose a knotty challenge

In practice Temporary Exhibition

At the Sharp End: creating an exhibition on violent crime

A case study from the Royal Armouries and the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Unit

In practice Digitisation

Using 3D models to create emotive online exhibitions

The Vindolanda Trust shares the learnings from its Digging up Memories project

In practice Careers guide 2022

Focus | Museums need you

A re-evaluation of vision and purpose is compelling museums to be creative to stay in business and engage with previously overlooked audiences

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People

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People maritime

Making waves

Eleanor Mills talks to Ian Goodyear, the managing director of the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, about steering the venue into new waters

People Obituary

Obituary | Peter Homan, 1938-2021

Peter’s in-depth knowledge and passion for British pharmacy history was inspiring to anyone who met him

People Obituary

Obituary | Hilary Nightingale, 1930-2022

The former editor of Museums Journal had a prodigious intellect

People Temporary Exhibition

Q&A | ‘It’s not bad at all that there will be conflicts and difference’

Artist Anthony Schrag tells us about a new exhibition at Perth Museum where the public will vote for their most valued objects

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Features

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Features Best In Show

Best in show | The Vision of the Blessed Gabriele, c.1489, by Carlo Crivelli

Ikon, Birmingham

Features

Modern marvel | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway

Eleanor Mills hears how the new venue is building on the legacy of the iconic artist

Features Transport

Routemasters

Staying relevant, attracting new audiences, preventing thefts and recruiting volunteers are among the many challenges facing the varied group of bus museums that are dotted about the UK

Features Archaeology

Buried treasure

As interest in the riches beneath our feet soars, museums are ideally placed to dig deep into this renewed appetite for unearthing past glories. By Geraldine Kendall Adams

Features Archaeology

Displaying prehistory

Exciting scientific advances are enabling museums to engage visitors with the prehistoric past as never before

Features Holocaust

Never forget

The Holocaust will soon be beyond living memory, but museums are rising to the challenge of keeping the survivors’ stories alive to shine a light on this dark chapter of history. Geraldine Kendall Adams reports

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Reviews

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Reviews Research

Books | Rethinking Research in the Art Museum, by Emily Pringle

Changing the way museums carry out research could make them more inclusive organisations

Reviews Digital

Digital reviews | Archive stories, youthful memories and an engaging podcast

A scroll through the latest digital content from museums and galleries

Reviews Art

Manual labour | Suzanne Lacy: What Kind of City? A Manual for Social Change

This powerful show at the Whitworth aims to bring people together to inspire change

Reviews Art

Bending the rules | The Rules of Art?, National Museum Cardiff

This new show challenges visitors to look at art in a fresh way

Reviews Redevelopment

Making an impression | The Courtauld Gallery, London

A striking marriage of art and architecture at the revamped gallery shines new light on its famed impressionist collection

Reviews Books

On my bookshelf | Ogilvy on Advertising

There's a lot we can learn about engaging audiences from the legendary 1960s adman, says Jamie Taylor

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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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