Geraldine Kendall Adams

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Geraldine Kendall Adams

Writer and News Editor, Museums Assocation

Working life | ‘I’m passionate about exploring all sides of the criminal justice system’

Simon Tansley, the director of London’s Bow Street Museum of Crime and Justice, discusses a project inspired by the writer Oscar Wilde

All that glitters: Is the Treasure scheme losing some of its shine? 

There is some disquiet about the system’s current direction of travel, despite record numbers of finds in recent years

Shock and anger in culture sector after death of Jason Arday

Black professionals are being ‘paraded’ and left exposed, says Museum X

Spate of museum heists in Europe highlights ‘changing tactics’ of crime gangs

High-value artefacts have been stolen from regional museums in Italy and France in recent weeks

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

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

V&A collections staff vote to strike over working conditions during heatwave

Institution says safety and wellbeing is of ‘utmost importance’ after workers raise grievance

Loss of funding for Jodrell Bank Observatory will not affect site’s museum

Engagement centre is supported separately and ‘remains open to visitors’

Fund has helped Scotland’s museums ‘move beyond day-to-day survival’

Evaluation report looks at impact of Museum Futures scheme one year in

NML to scrutinise financial networks that propped up chattel slavery

Community-led project will recruit young people to research insurance system underpinning the trade in enslaved people

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