Features
International opening: Red Star Line Museum
A new museum in Belgium tells the story of the migrants who left Europe for a new life in the United States. By Simon Stephens
The researchers
John Holt talks to the new breed of museum researchers who are exploring different ways of creating knowledge
The future of learning?
A new model of online learning could give museums a major role as content providers to higher education for a mass audience. Julie Nightingale reports
The Museum of… The story of soap
Louise Gray hears about a museum in a village that was first developed for workers in the Sunlight Soap factory
Memory work
A growing number of museums are helping dementia sufferers and gathering evidence about the value of such work, writes Geraldine Kendall
Firm Foundations
Fact director Mike Stubbs says Liverpool's arts organisations are still benefiting from Liverpool’s time as the European Capital of Culture. By Simon Stephens
The collectors
Gareth Harris talks to a range of private collectors about their relationships with public art galleries and museums
The Museum of… Shandy Hall
Louise Gray finds out about a museum dedicated to the 18th-century novelist and clergyman Laurence Sterne
Best in show: National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Woodblock print of a scene from the kabuki theatre performance, Comparison of the Daté Clan: The Clashing of Hilts Among Rumours; Kuniyoshi, 1851, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
The Museum of… Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections
Simon Stephens hears about the redevelopment of this iconic Christian site on the tiny island of Iona