Features

International opening | Amos Rex, Helsinki

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

Trendswatch | All change

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

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

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

Living cultures

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

Changing tides

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

Best in show

Codex Amiatinus, early eighth-century, British Library, London

International opening: La Piscine, France

An extension has allowed this museum, located in a stunning art-deco swimming pool, to better showcase its collection and heritage. By Geraldine Kendall Adams

We are the champions

Winners of the first Museums Change Lives awards

Museum of… Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum, Northumberland

John Holt explores an unusual venue that showcases the history and development of Northumbrian pipes

Trendswatch: Courting the Tudors

Eleanor Mills travels back in time to discover how museums are revealing poignant connections between lives then and now

From the art

Sharna Jackson, the new artistic director of Site Gallery in Sheffield, talks to Eleanor Mills about how she gets people so excited about art