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Best in show | All the Flowers Are for Me, 2016, by Anila Quayyum Agha

Maria Devaney of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London chooses her star exhibit

Call of the wild

Museums are rethinking their relationship with the natural world, but are they truly ready to let nature take its course?

Best in show | The Juan Nan (Watterson) Family Armchair, c.1700

The Manx Museum, Isle of Man

Deep impact

The Museums Change Lives awards honour organisations and individuals who confront contemporary issues to make a real difference in their communities. John Holt talks to the winners

Museum of… The Staffin Dinosaur Museum, Skye

Jurassic spark | A local crofter has made it his life’s work to collect and preserve prehistoric artefacts and fossils, which he displays in his island museum

Telling the story of a radical experiment in local government

Jade Chao explores the legacy of the Greater London Council through an extensive archive that traces its long history

Fight the power | Collecting 21st century protest movements

Holly Black talks to museum workers about the importance of finding new ways to collect and display the objects and ephemera of resistance

Museum of… Crab Museum, Margate

Claws and effect | This newly opened museum puts crabs at its heart and uses them to tell stories of biology, climate change and evolutionary history

Creative power | Kunsthalle Praha, Czech Republic

Simon Stephens explores Prague’s new contemporary art space with its director Ivana Goossen

Best in show | Costume from the South Ronaldsay Boys’ Ploughing Match and the Festival of the Horse, Orkney

Oliver McCall chooses his favourite exhibit from Compton Verney's upcoming show on folk costume

Preserving Africa’s intangible cultural heritage

With the growing number of museums in Africa, it is time for more investment in capturing the community stories of the continent

How art exhibitions are changing in the face of the climate crisis

Galleries are forging links between different disciplines and locations to stimulate imaginative responses to the planetary emergency