Features
Trendswatch: Good vibrations
Museums have long played host to live music, but events are becoming increasingly ambitious in scale. Geraldine Kendall reports
Marking the Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary
Caroline Parry on the challenges of bringing alive the story of a piece of medieval sheepskin parchment with dense Latin text written all over it
Open plan
Sue Shave, the director of Chiltern Open Air Museum, tells Simon Stephens about her love of historic buildings
The Museum of… Selly Manor Museum
This museum in Birmingham tells the story of a timber-framed house that dates back to the 14th century. By Alexandra Genova
The clothes shows
Exhibitions about fashion are all the rage, says Florence Waters, as museums cotton on to the fact that they can be hugely popular
International opening: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
Technology and interactivity play a vital role in this redeveloped museum dedicated to historic and contemporary design, says Alexandra Genova
Adapt or die
Funding cuts are pushing some local authority museums to crisis point, yet many are finding innovative ways to weather the financial storm. Geraldine Kendall finds out more
Trendswatch: Don’t trip up
TripAdvisor is a vital marketing tool for museums, even if the occasional bad review can sting, finds Geraldine Kendall
The Museum of… The Story Museum
Mariana Cerqueira enters the magical world of children's storytelling at this museum in Oxford