Features

Stressed out

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

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

Museum of… Bluebell Railway Museum, East Sussex

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

Troubled history

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

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

Trendswatch | Art and environment

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

Best in show

Girls’ knee-high boots, 1960s, Museum of Edinburgh

Social capital

Rick Lowe’s socially engaged practice has a huge impact on the communities he works with. Geraldine Kendall Adams meets him

Museum of… Firbeck House Infirmary, the Workhouse, Southwell

Louise Gray views this well-preserved workhouse and learns what it meant to be separated from loved ones

Trendswatch | Machine learning

Alex Stevens investigates the ethics, uses and benefits of artificial intelligence in museums and galleries

International opening | Gruuthusemuseum, Bruges

A five-year renovation has transformed a gothic palace into an involving experience with great interactives, says Eleanor Mills

New horizons

Ten years ago there was an explosion of new and refurbished regional galleries in England. A decade on, how have these institutions adapted to harsher economic realities and changing priorities?