Features
Museums without walls
Ecomuseums use landscapes to reconnect communities with their heritage and encourage responsible tourism
Voices from outside the sector
Museums Journal asked activists, environmentalists, writers and academics about their work and how they see museums addressing the climate crisis. Here are their responses
Best in show | Recycled artwork, by Michelle Reader, 2022
A new commission at the National Space Centre inspired by Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1831
Best in show | Vivian Maier: Self-portrait, undated, MK Gallery
A shot that shows how the enigmatic photographer created presence through absence
Museum of… Royal College of Music Museum, London
This wide-ranging collection features the world’s earliest-known stringed keyboard and an original Mozart concerto manuscript
Show time | The evolution of exhibition design
A new archive is being set up that will chart the transformation in exhibition design over the last 40 years. Stephen Greenberg, one of the pioneers in the field, looks back at this ever-changing discipline
Cultural heritage: making the intangible tangible
A new strategy around intangible cultural heritage will shine a brighter light on the rituals, festivals and traditions of communities across the country
Why folk art is no longer the endangered species of the art world
Compton Verney is engaging with contemporary communities to build on its extensive collection of folk art
Capturing the magic of folklore collections
Audiences are enchanted by the romance of folkloric objects, so why are they still the poor cousin in museum collections?
Best in show | Wow Bush/Turmoil in Full Bloom, 1977, by Sheila Hicks
How the artist embraced a delay caused by the pandemic to evolve her show at the Hepworth Wakefield
