Eleanor Mills

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Eleanor Mills

deputy editor, Museums Journal

Face value | National Portrait Gallery, London

As people with separate access needs, our two reviewers were hopeful that their visit to this redeveloped venue would be a smooth one

Museum of… The Lyme Museum

Eleanor Mills visits a unique online museum that shares the lived experience of people with invisible illnesses and disabilities

Best in show | Dapple Paddle, 1997-98, The McManus, Dundee

Dawson Murray's bold watercolour, painted more than a decade after the artist was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, is a highlight of the gallery's Hidden Histories exhibition

Fancy dresses | Mary Quant: Fashion Revolutionary, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

A taste of the Swinging Sixties at the Kelvingrove Museum’s Mary Quant retrospective

Digital project showcases Edinburgh’s LGBTQ+ heritage

Partnership with Museums & Galleries Edinburgh will continue

Ancestry and National Portrait Gallery team up for family portraits exhibition

The Nation’s Family Album runs for four weeks

New director for Sir John Soane’s Museum

Former BBC arts editor Will Gompertz to join the London venue in January next year

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Van Gogh Museum looks to the future

Fiftieth anniversary has given museum the chance to re-engage with locals and refresh its offer for international visitors, says director Emilie Gordenker

New senior appointments at Compton Verney

Warwickshire gallery announces chief operating officer and head of marketing

Chequered history | Tartan, V&A Dundee

An interpretation of the famous cloth as never seen before

Q&A | ‘Being high up creates conditions for people to imagine beyond their day-to-day lives’

Bold Tendencies, the innovative annual art event in Peckham, has just relaunched its longstanding learning programme. Creative learning producer Misty Ingham talks through what the new programme entails

Mark Bills to step down from Gainsborough’s House

Director leaves in August to pursue research