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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

Marching on

Katy Archer tells Simon Stephens why the People's History Museum is worth fighting for

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

Over to the feds…

With the MLA being wound down, there is a real need for federations to take the initiative and provide support and leadership in the regions. By John Holt

Barber’s fine arts

The director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Ann Sumner, is planning to raise the profile of the Birmingham gallery in the run-up to its 80th anniversary. By Simon Stephens