Features

Safety first

Although dealing with vulnerable people in museums can be tricky, there is lots that can be done to make it work, as Deborah Mulhearn finds out

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

Visitors to the Lizard in Cornwall can see a museum and heritage centre in a working lighthouse, writes Louise Gray

Hidden treasures

Museums Journal exclusively interviews the winners of the Unsung Heroes award, which is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Art Fund Prize for museums and galleries. By John Holt

Best in show

Dress 09 by Marios Schwab and Tom Gallant, 2008-09 Danson House, Bexleyheath, Kent

Beauty spot

With talk of 'aesthetic orgasms' and the 'next golden age', Randy Klinger is not your average gallery director. Simon Stephens travels to north-east Scotland to meet him

Track record

Museums and galleries have often dismissed sport as a subject for exhibitions but the Olympic Games has changed that, as John Holt finds out

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

A collection of ghosts provide an unusual draw for the Totnes Elizabethan House Museum, says Louise Gray

Profile

Lin Cheung: gold medallist

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

Louise Gray gets on her bike to hear how the National Cycle Collection gears up for visitors

Yard sale: profile of Kettle’s Yard director Andrew Nairne

Work has just started on an extension to Kettle's Yard but its director, Andrew Nairne, is already looking at the gallery's next stage of development

Best in show

Enamel painting of Charles I, Henry Pierce Bone, 1833 Southwell Minster

Artistic merits

Contemporary artists are helping museums to unlock the potential of their collections and reach new audiences. By Simon Stephens