This new venue not only offers free admission – visitors get a complimentary catalogue as well

How museums are turning to makerspaces to encourage informal connections with diverse local communities

The two museums that are nurturing relationships with communities of origin

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

How an empty crypt was transformed into a shrine to comedy

Javier Pes investigates the challenges facing medical museums during the Covid-19 pandemic

Lights at Sunset in Ostia by Tullio Crali, 1930, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London

Museums have learned a huge amount while acquiring items related to the pandemic and it could have a lasting impact on the sector. Simon Stephens reports

Geraldine Kendall Adams finds out how a new modern and contemporary art museum had no choice but to postpone its opening because of the Covid-19 pandemic

Sculpting Lives podcast featuring Phyllida Barlow, 2020

A more representative set of trustees will have a trickle-down effect on the workforce and provide a diversity of thought and life experience that will make for a better museum. Juliana Gilling reports

An ambitious project to digitise Ireland’s lost public records will aid the study of the nation’s history, says Patrick Kelly