Features
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
A box of delights | National Museum of Norway, Oslo
The chief curator of Oslo’s elegant new museum talks about the difficulties and joys of uniting four collections, covering 3,500 years of history, in a single building
Best in show | Reading copy of The Haunted Man, 1848, by Charles Dickens
Emily Dunbar chooses her star object from the latest exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum, London
How the restoration of Skylark XI helped to heal a community
The raising of the pleasure cruiser from the bottom of Loch Lomond inspired a project dedicated to helping local people in addiction recovery
Museum of… Museum of Scottish Fire Heritage, Edinburgh
Part of a working fire station, the museum documents the oldest municipal fire brigade in the UK, and features artefacts dating from 1426
