Features

Tallant show

Simon Stephens hears how Sally Tallant has stamped her mark on this year's Liverpool Biennial

Game on

Museums and galleries are among the heritage organisations taking part in this month's National Sporting Heritage Day. Deborah Mulhearn reports

World view

Working abroad can be lucrative for British museums, but how are they tackling the ethical issues that this can raise? Sara Wajid reports

Best in show

The Eve of the Battle of the Somme, 1916, Herbert James Gunn, Fleming Collection, London

The survivors

With resilience the word on everyone's lips, John Holt talks to some of the museum leaders who are finding new working models in these tough financial times

Island life

Museums on islands can only flourish if they work closely with their local communities. Deborah Mulhearn

On the move

In the space of few years Nêst Thomas has gone from working to save Gwynedd Museum from closure to unveiling ambitious plans to move it into a new home. Simon Stephens meets her

Trendswatch: Share and share alike

Geraldine Kendall finds out how museums are benefiting from the trend for collaborative consumption

International opening: Mauritshuis, Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

With visitors beating a path to the door to see classic works such as Vermeer’s Girl with A Pearl Earring, a major renovation and expansion was vital for this museum in The Hague. By Geraldine Kendall

The Museum of… Swtan Folk Museum

Gwendolyn Smith on what is on offer at a fully restored Welsh cottage that depicts rural life at the turn of the 20th century

Take your partners

Working in partnership is now seen as vital as museums seek to make dwindling public money go further. Simon Stephens reports

Voyage of discovery

Simon Stephens talks to Gill Poulter about how Dundee Heritage Trust is making the most of the city's maritime and textile history