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With money tight and space at a premium, many museums are thinking hard about disposing of objects. But how are they going about the great giveaway? John Holt reports
Lost in music
Museums have often struggled to reflect the social and cultural significance of pop music, but this is changing. Deborah Mulhearn reports
Money talks
What can museums in the UK learn from the US model of philanthropy? Katrina Burroughs reports
Digital futures
Museums and galleries have been rising to the challenge of displaying, collecting and preserving new-media art. Abbas Ali investigates
The Museum of…Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections
Floods, fertility and things to put under your pillow at night: Louise Gray hears about Cornwall’s Museum of Witchcraft
Weston front
Mansfield Museum curator Liz Weston tells Simon Stephens how changes to Renaissance and local authority cuts are affecting smaller museums around the UK
Back to basics
Ken Arnold and Thomas Söderqvist reveal their Dogme-style manifesto for creating engaging science, technology and medicine exhibitions
Eastern promise
It's full steam ahead for cultural development in the Middle East. But anyone expecting a carbon copy of the western model will be in for a surprise, as Rebecca Atkinson reveals
The Museum of…Our pick of the UK’s specialist collections
Louise Gray hears how a museum dedicated to a 19th-century social reformer survives on a shoestring budget