Features
World at war | Museums Journal, 1930-1960
As Museums Journal marks 125 years of reporting, Geraldine Kendall Adams looks at how world war two and new thinking about cultural value shaped the sector from 1930 to 1960
‘Ignorance, othering and snobbery’: Are museums struggling to reflect working-class lives?
Research is exposing museums’ troubled relationship with working‑classness – and testing experimental participatory methods to challenge it by fostering cross-sector dialogue and collaboration
‘A visceral experience of scale’: Creating a museum fit for a pharaoh
Geraldine Kendall Adams talks to Róisín Heneghan, one of the architects who worked on the Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, about the design behind this new global cultural landmark
Age of empire | Museums Journal, 1901-1930
Overseas expeditions, the rise of museums across the UK and abroad, and the impact of the first world war – in its first 30 years Museums Journal reported it all
Best in show | Rudolf Nureyev, 1964, by Jane Bown
This portrait of the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev, on display at Newlands House Gallery, showcases the photographer's intimate style
Museum of… St Andrews Heritage Museum and Gardens, Fife
A redevelopment is creating space for new programmes, writes Emily Godwin
‘We’re not political’: How the Fenix Museum of Migration is navigating the anti-immigration era
The rhetoric may be increasingly inflammatory, but Rotterdam's new cultural space aims tell a universal story
Great again? The rise of nostalgic nationalism
We're living through a time of extremism, division and collective forgetting. But Rachael Lennon believes museums have the power to seed hope and cohesion
Printed matter | 125 years of Museums Journal
Simon Stephens kicks off the magazine's anniversary year with a look back at its launch in July 1901
Elephant in the room
The 2018 Ivory Act was crucial for protecting wildlife, but it raised complex questions for museums. Geraldine Kendall Adams hears about a collaborative project set up to help the sector meet the challenges of the ban
