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
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