Features

Migration stories

Patrick Kelly on how museums and galleries are acknowledging the huge impact of migration

Trendswatch | Baby boom

Catherine Kennedy learns that by starting visitors young, museums are establishing lifelong connections

Kicking the habitat

The world’s leading scientists are warning that urgent action is needed to address biodiversity loss. Miles Rowland finds out how museums are helping to address this crisis

Best in show | Rain on Princes Street, 1913, by Stanley Cursiter

The McManus, Dundee

Trendswatch | All eyes on icons

As numerous star objects tour UK museums, Catherine Kennedy examines the effect they have had on the host venues and their local communities

Visionary views

On the 200th anniversary of John Ruskin’s birth, Alastair Smart looks at how the Victorian art critic has influenced artists and museums over the past two centuries with his views on social issues, education, the dangers of capitalism and much more

International opening | Holocaust Memorial Center, Skopje, North Macedonia

A new permanent exhibition honours the more than 7,000 Balkan Jews who were murdered, says Geraldine Kendall Adams

The museum gardeners

The gardens of many museums and heritage sites have blossomed into multisensory attractions in their own right. John Holt talks to the skilled people who put the culture into horticulture

Finger on the pulse

Nat Edwards, the director of the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds, talks to Eleanor Mills

Museum of… Western Approaches HQ, Liverpool

Jessica Browne-Swinburne on a secret bunker that reveals how the British armed forces won the second world war

Best in show

Tea in the Bedsitter, 1916, by Harold Gilman, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

Hello future

Esme Ward talks to Eleanor Mills about Manchester Museum's major renovation