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Wireless in Wales Museum

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Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums

Trendswatch – live streaming

For a relatively modest outlay, museums can now widen their audience reach and ensure visitors no longer have to fear missing out on events, says Laura Rutkowski

Holocaust remembrance

As the chosen design for the UK Holocaust Memorial is announced, Rob Sharp looks at how museums interpret this subject for audiences in the 21st century

Museum of…

The newly refurbished Sandwich Guildhall Museum reveals the story of the ancient town with its very own Magna Carta, writes Louise Gray

International opening

A museum dedicated to the politics and people of Europe opened earlier this year. Chris Mugan asks its creative director, Taja Vovk van Gaal, what it hopes to achieve  

Writ large

Simon Stephens discovers that visitor comment books divide museum professionals like almost nothing else

The finds liaison officers

John Holt unearths what goes into keeping track of archaeological objects found by members of the public 

Profile

Alistair Hudson, the director of Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, talks to Eleanor Mills about how museums can operate for the greater good. Photography by Phil Sayer

Gotta have faith

Deborah Mulhearn delves into the various ways that museums are interpreting different religions and the objects associated with them

International opening: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Simon Stephens talks to director Sean Rainbird about the redevelopment of one of Europe’s earliest public art museums

Trendswatch: Selfie mania

Laura Rutkowski takes a snapshot of the history of the self-portrait, and how it is being used (and abused) in museums now