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Analysis

Analysis Championing our Workforce

Museum staffing hit by double whammy of Covid and Brexit

‘Pingdemic’ brings disruption while some institutions are struggling to recruit enough workers

Analysis Disposal

At your disposal

An online platform that will enable museums to sell objects to the public has put deaccessioning under the spotlight once more

Analysis Learning and engagement

Lessons to be learned

What will be the long-term impact of the pandemic on museum education?

Analysis Championing our 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

Analysis Leadership

All change at the top in civic museums

It's been a year of upheaval for museum leaders in more ways than one. Geraldine Kendall Adams finds out how they have been faring

Analysis High streets

Transforming our high streets

How museums are stepping into the void left by retail closures

Analysis Small museums

Keeping the wolf from the door

Deprived of admissions revenue, many small museums are surviving only because they have secured funding

Analysis Brexit

Brexit: the next crisis?

UK museums, already hit by Covid, face more uncertainty now the Brexit transition period is ending

Analysis Supporting Decolonisation

National Trust gets caught in culture war crossfire

Trust accused of being ‘at odds’ with membership after report on slavery and colonialism