Features

Museum of… Magic, Fortune-telling and Witchcraft, Edinburgh

Claudia Cox explores items that range from a witch’s altar to a mummified cat

Best in show | The Umbrellas, 1881-86, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

How Leicester Museum & Art Gallery has used digital tech and animation to bring this masterpiece, on loan from the National Gallery, to life

Perspectives on human remains

Geraldine Kendall Adams delves into the moral and ethical arguments that surround the highly sensitive issue of human remains held in museum collections

How the Urban Nature Project is transforming the Natural History Museum

Natalie Tacq tells Museums Journal about the institution's ambitious plan to revitalise its green spaces

How does your urban garden grow?

Museums are offering cities a green lifeline, says Simon Stephens

Force of nature | How art is blossoming in botanic gardens

Britain’s gardens are stimulating audiences’ interest in plants by inviting artists to work with their horticultural teams

Best in show | The Garden of Eden with the Temptation in the Background, c.1600

This slightly bonkers but brilliant masterpiece by Jan Brueghel the Elder takes centre stage at Compton Verney's latest show

Museum of… The Green Howards Museum, Richmond, North Yorkshire

Lynsey Ford visits a collection of uniforms, medals and artefacts that celebrates the wartime contribution of a British line infantry regiment

A new era | Toronto Holocaust Museum

Canada | Geraldine Kendall Adams hears how the story of those who experienced the Holocaust is being kept alive for the post-survivor era

In the hot seat | Dealing with a PR crisis

In a world of fast-paced news, it is increasingly easy to attract the wrong sort of media attention. But with a crisis management plan in place to support staff and offset bad publicity you can ride out any storm, says Caroline Parry

The battle to save a Swedish warship

How the Vasa Museum is preserving a historic vessel

Ship shape | Preserving our seafaring heritage

Maritime vessels are expensive to maintain and difficult to fund, but there are still lots of success stories, finds Chris Mugan