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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

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

The leavers

Deborah Mulhearn talks to those who have turned their back on the sector and forged new careers away from museums and galleries

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

Peace dividend

How is Derry taking advantage of its status as the UK's first city of culture? By Simon Stephens

Best in show

Sleeping Shelterer, 1941, Henry Moore, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

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

The Museum of… Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections

Roman Britain in all its shapes and forms is at the heart of the Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester, writes Louise Gray

Artistic endeavour

Alex Farquharson tells Simon Stephens why an exhibition about Haitian art is the kind of ambitious programming that Nottingham Contemporary brings to the East Midlands

Ace relations

Forgotten and unloved or supported and understood - how are museums faring under their new master, Arts Council England? Geraldine Kendall reports

Best in show

Reflection, 1982, Bridget Riley, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Snap happy

Should visitors be allowed to take photographs in galleries or does it annoy other visitors and damage artefacts? Rebecca Atkinson reports