Features

Trendswatch | Fit for purpose

Exercises classes in museums are bringing in a healthy revenue and new visitors, says Jasper Hart

Museum of… Tudor Merchant’s House, Tenby, Wales

Louise Gray gets a glimpse of life in a wealthy 15th-century household

International opening | Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

This impressive update and renovation is a milestone in a huge cultural project in the Hungarian capital, says Eleanor Mills

A tangled web

Jon Pratty looks at the ethical and governance challenges created by the sector’s growing dependence on digital technology giants

Hello future

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

Best in show

Ash Wednesday: 8.30am, 2004-05, by George Shaw, Holburne Museum, Bath

Trendswatch | Build and they will come

Museums are taking advantage of the potential of Lego to attract new and bigger audiences. By Alex Stevens

Museum of… High Wycombe Chair Making Museum, Buckinghamshire

This venue celebrates the town’s traditional furniture-making heritage, says Miles Rowland

International opening | Africa Museum, Brussels 

Geraldine Kendall Adams on a venue that is resolutely decolonising its collections 

Belfast stories  

Patrick Kelly discovers a growing band of small, volunteer-run museums that are revealing local communities’ experiences of the Troubles

Great Scott 

Elizabeth Scott, the head of Guildhall Galleries, talks to Eleanor Mills about the history of crime and breathing life into museums

The spoils of war

European countries and institutions are making renewed efforts to reunite cultural property looted by the Nazis with its rightful owners. Geraldine Kendall Adams investigates