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Switzerland | Kulturstiftung Basel H Geiger, Basel

This new venue not only offers free admission – visitors get a complimentary catalogue as well

Making space

How museums are turning to makerspaces to encourage informal connections with diverse local communities

A new approach to repatriation

The two museums that are nurturing relationships with communities of origin

Best in show | Fishermen and Visitors, 1931, by Joseph Edward Southall

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

The Museum of… The Museum of Comedy, London

How an empty crypt was transformed into a shrine to comedy

Crisis management

Javier Pes investigates the challenges facing medical museums during the Covid-19 pandemic

Best in show

Lights at Sunset in Ostia by Tullio Crali, 1930, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London

A watershed for the sector

Museums have learned a huge amount while acquiring items related to the pandemic and it could have a lasting impact on the sector. Simon Stephens reports

Opening | Albertina Modern, Vienna

Geraldine Kendall Adams finds out how a new modern and contemporary art museum had no choice but to postpone its opening because of the Covid-19 pandemic

Best in show

Sculpting Lives podcast featuring Phyllida Barlow, 2020

Get on board

A more representative set of trustees will have a trickle-down effect on the workforce and provide a diversity of thought and life experience that will make for a better museum. Juliana Gilling reports

Rewriting history

An ambitious project to digitise Ireland’s lost public records will aid the study of the nation’s history, says Patrick Kelly