Features
Open plan
Beamish, an open-air museum in north-east England, has a very particular set of challenges. Director Richard Evans tells Simon Stephens about how he is overcoming them
The curators
Many curators feel their work is undervalued and under threat. John Holt finds out about some of the challenges that they face
Impact assessment
The MA’s Museums 2020 initiative has raised a whole series of questions about the future of museums and the impact they have on people’s lives. Rob Sharp reports
Peace dividend
How is Derry taking advantage of its status as the UK's first city of culture? By Simon Stephens
The leavers
Deborah Mulhearn talks to those who have turned their back on the sector and forged new careers away from museums and galleries
The Museum of… Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections
Rebecca Atkinson hears about a geological museum that is working on plans for a major redevelopment
Surgical spirit
Sam Alberti tells Simon Stephens about his plans to celebrate the bicentenary of the Hunterian Museum and its extraordinary collection of human and animal specimens
The Museum of… Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections
Rebecca Atkinson on Coleridge Cottage, one of the National Trust's first properties and home of the Romantic poet