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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

Spain | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres

Eleanor Mills talks to the pioneering collector immortalised in a gallery of artworks she has donated

We can be heroes

This year’s Museums Change Lives Awards paid tribute to the institutions and individuals that have made a truly heroic impact in their communities. John Holt talks to the winners

Hidden truths

Photographer and activist Red Saunders tells Simon Stephens the vision behind his Hidden Project, which shines a light on historic struggles for social justice