Features
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
Museum of… British Red Cross Museum, London
Pippa Kelly is treated to a tour of this extensive archive that celebrates 150 years of helping people in crisis across the globe
Tales of the unexpected | Hans Christian Andersen’s House, Denmark
This interactive museum dedicated to the fairy-tale author is full of surprising twists, writes Pippa Kelly
Let there be light
As the Lindisfarne Gospels return to north east England, John Holt talks to the organisers of a host of events that celebrate the region’s history and shine a modern light on an ancient treasure
Healing power
Medical museums are putting patient experiences at the heart of collections as they develop new ways to treat emotive subjects, writes Juliana Gilling
Standing up to cancer
How the Francis Crick Institute gave its Outwitting Cancer exhibition the personal treatment
Modern marvel | Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway
Eleanor Mills hears how the new venue is building on the legacy of the iconic artist
Routemasters
Staying relevant, attracting new audiences, preventing thefts and recruiting volunteers are among the many challenges facing the varied group of bus museums that are dotted about the UK
Buried treasure
As interest in the riches beneath our feet soars, museums are ideally placed to dig deep into this renewed appetite for unearthing past glories. By Geraldine Kendall Adams