Features
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
The emerging museum professionals
In the run-up to the Museums Association’s Moving on Up event for those in the first five years of their careers, John Holt talks to five up-and-coming museum workers about why they chose to join the sector, their professional goals and the challenges they have overcome
Museum of… The Museum of Knots and Sailor’s Ropework, Suffolk
Louise Gray finds an expert ropemaker at the heart of this unusually specialised collection
Changing tides
Maritime museums all over the UK are finding new ways to connect audiences with their buildings and collections, says Deborah Mulhearn