Features
Historic houses | Staying relevant in a changing world
Stately homes face many challenges, not least how they appeal to today’s visitors, but they are responding with sensitivity and inventiveness, writes Juliana Gilling
Best in show | Layered Legacies, 2024, by Mani Kambo
Harewood House's artistic director chooses a contemporary piece that draws on the property's revered fine art interiors
United States | National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington
Rebecca Atkinson on a venue dedicated to championing women through the arts
Material world | Weaving textiles into museum programming
Laura Moseley unravels the growth of material craft as a form of political and social expression
Museum of… Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Burnley, Lancashire
Eleanor Mills discovers a museum that helps protect heritage weaving skills
Wish you were here | Is life always sunny for seaside museums?
At the height of the summer holiday season, John Holt dodges dive-bombing seagulls to talk to coastal museums about leaking roofs, fossil hunting and the grand old tradition of appropriating items from hotel bedrooms
Museum of… Magic, Fortune-telling and Witchcraft, Edinburgh
Claudia Cox explores items that range from a witch’s altar to a mummified cat
Best in show | The Umbrellas, 1881-86, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
How Leicester Museum & Art Gallery has used digital tech and animation to bring this masterpiece, on loan from the National Gallery, to life
Perspectives on human remains
Geraldine Kendall Adams delves into the moral and ethical arguments that surround the highly sensitive issue of human remains held in museum collections
