Features

Trendswatch: Takeover days

The benefits of letting younger visitors take control of your museum

Trendswatch: Social work

Geraldine Kendall on how museums are using the social-enterprise model to work more creatively

Best in show

After Bruno Taut (Devotion to Drift) 2013, Lee Bul Ikon, Birmingham

International opening: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba

This new museum about human rights aims to provide its visitors with an inspirational experience, writes Geraldine Kendall

The Museum of… Tenby Museum and Art Gallery

Gwendolyn Smith on an independent museum that celebrates the history of the Welsh seaside town of Tenby, from art to archaeology

Acting up

Musician, actor and performance artist Mat Fraser recently turned his attention to the portrayal of disabled people in museums. Simon Stephens meets him

Gender agenda

What are the career challenges for women working in museums and galleries, particularly when they have families? Gwendolyn Smith reports

Tomorrow’s world

As two major science galleries are about to be unveiled, Geraldine Kendall looks at how museums are encouraging the public to engage with the subject

People power

As the Artes Mundi prize and exhibition opens in Cardiff, Simon Stephens talks to artists who are inspired by working closely with communities

Best in show

I am the curator of my own misery, 2010, Douglas Gordon, Caithness Horizons, Thurso

Trendswatch: Ready to wear

Geraldine Kendall gauges the potential uses of wearable technology for museums and galleries

The Museum of… Stotfold Watermill

In its early days, the 11th-century mill paid an annual rent of £4 and 400 eels to the local lord. Kasia Delgado finds the Bedfordshire mill still in working order