Features

Museum of… High Wycombe Chair Making Museum, Buckinghamshire

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

Best in show

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

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

Living cultures

Laura van Broekhoven, the director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, talks about repatriation, decolonisation and contested histories. By Eleanor Mills

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

Trendswatch | All change

Miles Rowland finds out why some museums are choosing new names, albeit temporarily

Changing tides

Maritime museums all over the UK are finding new ways to connect audiences with their buildings and collections, says Deborah Mulhearn

International opening | Amos Rex, Helsinki

Miles Rowland explores an underground art museum in the capital of Finland