Features
Image conscious
High-quality photography can help museums bring out the best in their collections. Rebecca Atkinson reports
The collectors
Gareth Harris talks to a range of private collectors about their relationships with public art galleries and museums
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
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 Museum of… Shandy Hall
Louise Gray finds out about a museum dedicated to the 18th-century novelist and clergyman Laurence Sterne
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
Fighting talk
Simon Stephens reports on efforts to make battlefield sites engaging and evocative places to visit
Friends of the earth
How should museums tackle environmental issues and engage the public on them? Geraldine Kendall finds out what the campaigners think