Features
Trendswatch: games galore
Jonathan Knott finds many museums are expanding their collections and interpretation into the digital domain of computer games
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
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
Back to the future
Our 1985 front cover featured three curators surrounded by objects they chose to reflect contemporary collecting. Thirty years on, we asked three social history curators to recreate the image using artefacts chosen to represent the 1980s to now. Our first article sees Mark Suggitt discuss the objects picked in 1985. In the second piece, Catherine Newley, Jen Kavanagh and Jemma Conway describe their choices
Think tank
The new director of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Sarah Munro, isn’t afraid of thinking big. Eleanor Mills talks to her about brewing a rich cultural broth
History lessons
Patrick Kelly on the new breed of museums in Northern Ireland which, far from sweeping old divisions under the carpet, are embracing distinct identities
Trendswatch
Museums are holding events in pubs to help raise their profile, target new audiences and build links with the local community
International opening: Fifa World Football Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Are football and Switzerland the perfect match? Scott Anthony finds out from the director of the new Fifa World Football Museum
The bloggers
John Holt reveals how bloggers engage online audiences in the work of museums as he delves into the art of display in the digital domain