Features

Best in show | The Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro

Metalwork handbag dating from the early 14th century, from Mosul, present-day northern Iraq

International opening | Arter, Istanbul

An exciting new museum that is set to shake up Istanbul’s arts and culture scene

Actions, not words

Decolonisation has become an important global debate in museums and galleries but it must be more than a conversation and lead to real and lasting change among people and institutions

Material world

Over the past few years, there has been a huge surge in interest in collecting and displaying textiles

Best in show

Pair of Roman gold earrings from the ‘Fenwick Hoard’, Colchester Castle, Essex

Out of Africa

A boom in cultural institutions is taking place across the African continent alongside growing calls for European museums to return colonial-era objects to their rightful homes. Geraldine Kendall Adams reports

Trendswatch | Art and environment

Museums and cultural organisations are boosting their contemporary collecting to reflect the climate crisis and other pressing issues

Troubled history

Cultural institutions across the world are finding different ways of tackling the difficult and emotional subject of slavery

Bright ideas

Errol Francis, the artistic director and CEO of Culture&, talks to Eleanor Mills about changing the status quo

Museum of… Bluebell Railway Museum, East Sussex

Louise Gray relives the glory days of the railways in southern England

Stressed out

Are museums looking after the mental health and wellbeing of their often overworked and underpaid staff?

International opening | Statue of Liberty Museum, New York

The story of one of the world’s most recognisable monuments is told in this new museum