Features

Art for all

It is 70 years since the Arts Council of Great Britain was set up. Geraldine Kendall Adams looks at whether its founding ideals are still being upheld today

International opening: Helsinki City Museum, Finland

Eleanor Mills talks to Tiina Merisalo, the director of Helsinki City Museum, the newest addition to the Finnish capital’s booming art and culture scene

Moving on up

The director of Tullie House in Cumbria, Andrew Mackay, talks to Eleanor Mills about how museums can transform people’s lives

Trendswatch: retail therapy

Museum shops are getting a makeover

Museum of…

Louise Gray delves behind the spooky happenings that make this Edwardian country house such a popular destination

Making it

Economic and social deprivation have not stopped Glasgow from developing one of the most thriving cultural scenes in Britain. Eleanor Mills discovers how

Museum of…

Lucy Alderson hears about life in Glasgow in the early 20th century

Success story

The Roald Dahl Museum’s new director Steve Gardam is writing its story little by little, in the most scrumdiddlyumptious way, finds Eleanor Mills

Trendswatch: games galore

Jonathan Knott finds many museums are expanding their collections and interpretation into the digital domain of computer games

International opening: The Feuerle Collection, Berlin

A new gallery showcases this collection of international contemporary art and imperial Chinese design, but does Berlin need another art space? Oliver Krug talks to its director, Désiré Feuerle, about how this one is different

Special interests

What does the future hold for Subject Specialist Networks and how can they support the rest of the sector? Simon Stephens finds out

New horizons

As museums and permanent exhibitions dedicated to design pop up all over the place, Geraldine Kendall Adams investigates how the subject is being reinterpreted for the 21st century