Features

Moving stories

As visitors flock to the recently opened Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Simon Stephens finds out about the challenges of interpreting and displaying transport collections

Prize draw

As the Baltic prepares to welcome visitors to this year's Turner Prize exhibition, Simon Stephens visits Gateshead to meet its director, Godfrey Worsdale

Show business: Museums Journal roundtable discussion, full transcript

The Museum Journal's expert panel discusses the financial and environmental sustainability of temporary exhibitions...

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

Louise Gray hears what links London, Stratford-upon-Avon and Washington, DC, to Craven Museum and Art Gallery

Best in show

Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife 1941, National Army Museum, London

Keeping the faith

Religious buildings have traditionally had little or no interpretation, but this is changing. Simon Stephens finds out why

Northern spirit

Iain Watson grew up in the north east and is now in charge of 12 museums across Tyne & Wear. Simon Stephens meets him

Reading matters

There is a great public interest in literature, but museums need to find novel approaches to making writers and their work come alive for visitors. By Deborah Mulhearn

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

Its location makes the Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum an archaeological hotspot, says Louise Gray

Fields of dreams

Every summer the UK goes festival-mad and some museums are making sure they get in on the act, as Louise Gray finds out

Last resort?

From traditional end-of-the-pier shows to modern art festivals, can culture turn the tide of decline and get people flocking back our seaside towns? By John Holt

Social work

As work on the Museum of East Anglian Life's capital project continues, its director, Tony Butler, tells Simon Stephens why progress at the organisation has been about much more than just bricks and mortar