Features
‘We needed a building that could be a safe space for everyone’: A museum shaped by the Troubles
Geraldine Kendall Adams visits a border museum in the Republic of Ireland that has brought healing to a divided community
The boom years | Museums Journal, 1960-2000
Rebecca Atkinson looks at how Museums Journal evolved in the postwar years of the 1960s right up to the millennium
A thousand years in the making: The Bayeux Tapestry loan
Geraldine Kendall Adams unpicks the logistics of moving the fragile embroidery from France to England for a historic exhibition at the British Museum
‘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
