News
V&A’s Tim Reeve takes top job at English Heritage
The charity has been without a permanent chief executive since Nick Merriman’s departure in June last year
Plans to relocate Walsall Leather Museum scrapped by new Reform council
Campaigners welcome decision to keep museum in its historic factory home
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Analysis
Digital detox: Is social media still worth it for museums?
The online landscape suddenly looks very different amid a backlash against tech giants. Geraldine Kendall Adams asks how museums are adapting to the post-X era
Can Subject Specialist Networks find a way to sustain themselves?
SSNs are a vital way for museum collections experts to share knowledge, but a lack of funding and no strategy to support them has seen some fall by the wayside
Opinion
Knowing who visited is not the same as knowing what they learned
Education teams need evidence that matches the decisions they are trying to make, writes Junyi Lin
Jewish museums and staff need support
Hate crimes are impacting museums’ essential work, says Sue Shave
We need a shared language to expand access and communicate the value of museums
Refreshed framework marks the next chapter for understanding the impact of museum learning, says GEM's Rachel Tranter
Museums must avoid reducing football into a sanitised corporate spectacle
How should museums engage with the beautiful game, asks football fandom expert Josh Bland
In practice
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
Case study | Programming with the community
Heba Abd el Gawad shares lessons from a community takeover of Horniman
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Features
‘Power has shifted’: Northern Ireland’s community-led museums
A growing number of heritage projects are allowing local people to explore and share their own stories rather than having others speak for them. By Simon Stephens
‘It puts the humanity back into the objects’: How craft is remaking collections
Many museums are harnessing the power of contemporary craft by inviting artists to take inspiration from their collections, says Corinne Julius
People
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
Q&A | ‘Building meaningful participatory projects takes time, trust and investment’
Ameneh Enayat tells us how young people played a central role in creating the Story Museum's new immersive detective exhibition
Q&A | ‘I don’t think I ever thought we could ask to borrow The Hay Wain’
Emma Roodhouse, curator of Walking Constable’s Landscape, talks about the enduring quality of the artist’s work in the year that marks the 250th anniversary of John Constable’s birth
Reviews
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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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