Features

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

Best in show | The Vision of the Blessed Gabriele, c.1489, by Carlo Crivelli

Ikon, Birmingham

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

Displaying prehistory

Exciting scientific advances are enabling museums to engage visitors with the prehistoric past as never before

Never forget

The Holocaust will soon be beyond living memory, but museums are rising to the challenge of keeping the survivors’ stories alive to shine a light on this dark chapter of history. Geraldine Kendall Adams reports

Rethinking the Holocaust displays at the Imperial War Museum

Moving away from dark walls and dimly lit spaces, the new galleries aim to show how the genocide took place in plain sight

Best in show | Self-portrait, c.1960, by Hubert Arthur Finney

The Lightbox, Woking

Museum of… Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein, Bath

Eleanor Mills finds the author’s infamous literary creation is vividly brought to life in a monster museum packed with scares