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Best in show | Red silk dress, 1770s

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria

Micro matters

Fiona Candlin reflects on her campervan journey around some of the UK’s smaller heritage museums as part of the Mapping Museums project

Building the future

Leading voices from across the globe share their insights and experiences of their efforts to advance the world’s understanding and knowledge of Black history

Waiting for myself to appear

Artist and playwright Michael McMillan discusses how decolonising museums and the education system can help ensure that Black history is no longer overlooked

You’ve got to get your history right

Tehmina Goskar traces the roots behind years of misrepresentation of social and cultural history in museums and argues change can only come from within

Facing up to the past

Harewood House in Leeds is taking active steps to be more open about its colonial past, but more can be done, says Emily Zobel Marshall

Best in show | Commodities, 2021, by Carl Gabriel

Brodsworth Hall and Gardens, South Yorkshire

Into the groove

Patrick Vernon is preserving African diaspora heritage through a radio show broadcast from a space station in the year 2300

Museum of… Bow Street Police Museum, London

Chiara Wilkinson visits this arresting new museum and takes its curator and manager in for questioning

Best in show | David asleep on the Trans-Siberian Express, 1973, by Geoff MacCormack

Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

Screen savers | Acmi, Melbourne

Digital culture is at the heart of this 21st-century reboot

The gift that keeps on giving

It is vitally important to protect one of the sector’s most prized assets – the army of volunteers helping bring museums to life