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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

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

Joined-up thinking

Jonathan Knott finds out how museums are developing membership schemes designed to engage with people more deeply

Museum of…

The DH Lawrence Birthplace Museum, Nottinghamshire

Profile: The long view

Juan Ignacio Vidarte tells Eleanor Mills why the Guggenheim Bilbao has much to celebrate in its 20th year

Gotta have faith

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

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

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

Profile

Eleanor Mills talks to Sonia Solicari, the director of the Geffrye Museum of the Home, about how sweet her new home really is

Trendswatch

Simon Stephens dips his toes into the world of whale skeletons