Features

Trendswatch: Carry on screening

Geraldine Kendall reports on the opportunities for museums to create films about their exhibitions

Full steam ahead

Peter Bazalgette tells Simon Stephens how Arts Council England can help culture flourish even in these difficult times

The researchers

John Holt talks to the new breed of museum researchers who are exploring different ways of creating knowledge

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

Image conscious

High-quality photography can help museums bring out the best in their collections. Rebecca Atkinson 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

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… Shandy Hall

Louise Gray finds out about a museum dedicated to the 18th-century novelist and clergyman Laurence Sterne

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

Memory work

A growing number of museums are helping dementia sufferers and gathering evidence about the value of such work, writes Geraldine Kendall

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 collectors

Gareth Harris talks to a range of private collectors about their relationships with public art galleries and museums