Eleanor Mills

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Eleanor Mills

deputy editor, Museums Journal

Q&A | ‘We have to bear our memory. Even if it is a nightmare, it should belong to us’

Museums Journal sits down with China's most famous dissident, Ai Weiwei, to talk history, rebellion – and his hopes of being forgotten

Public sees cultural heritage protection in conflict zones as a high priority

Research commissioned by British Council on 10th anniversary of Cultural Protection Fund

Digital | Moving paintings, fashion history, whaler’s memories

We take a close look at the cache

The Asian gaze | A Brief History of British South Asian Art, by Alina Khakoo

Postwar British visual art is given a new context in this slim but rewarding book

DCMS and Art Explora to create UK’s first permanent mobile museum

£1.6m government initiative aims to bring art to communities everywhere

Gwen John: Strange Beauties – a meditative look at ‘God’s little artist’

Julia Carver visits this stimulating interpretation of the modernist painter’s work at Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd – National Museum Cardiff

New museum of illustration opens in London

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has a dedicated library and exhibition spaces

From ‘grubby’ mass production to serious artist – Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy

These joyful, insightful works are given the critical attention they deserve at The Box, Plymouth, says Lara Goodband

Scottish Crannog Centre unveils new building

Opening follows 2021 fire that devastated the Perthshire site

National Museum of the Royal Navy launches new name and visual identity

'Royal Navy Museums' branding will be rolled out over two years

Profile | ‘The people who put this place together wanted to unify science’

Gavin Svenson, the new director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History, talks about his career, an ambitious collections redisplay, and his academic specialism – praying mantises

Age of empire | Museums Journal, 1901-1930

Overseas expeditions, the rise of museums across the UK and abroad, and the impact of the first world war – in its first 30 years Museums Journal reported it all