Features
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
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
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
Finger on the pulse
Nat Edwards, the director of the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds, talks to Eleanor Mills
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
Trendswatch | Fit for purpose
Exercises classes in museums are bringing in a healthy revenue and new visitors, says Jasper Hart