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
Making an archive sing
Simon Stephens visits the Red House in Suffolk, the former home of composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, the singer Peter Pears
World at war | Museums Journal, 1930-1960
As Museums Journal marks 125 years of reporting, Geraldine Kendall Adams looks at how world war two and new thinking about cultural value shaped the sector from 1930 to 1960
‘Ignorance, othering and snobbery’: Are museums struggling to reflect working-class lives?
Research is exposing museums’ troubled relationship with working‑classness – and testing experimental participatory methods to challenge it by fostering cross-sector dialogue and collaboration
‘A visceral experience of scale’: Creating a museum fit for a pharaoh
Geraldine Kendall Adams talks to Róisín Heneghan, one of the architects who worked on the Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, about the design behind this new global cultural landmark
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
Best in show | Rudolf Nureyev, 1964, by Jane Bown
This portrait of the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, on display at Newlands House Gallery, showcases the photographer's intimate style
Museum of… St Andrews Heritage Museum and Gardens, Fife
A redevelopment is creating space for new programmes, writes Emily Godwin
‘We’re not political’: How the Fenix Museum of Migration is navigating the anti-immigration era
The rhetoric may be increasingly inflammatory, but Rotterdam's new cultural space aims tell a universal story
