Features
Material world | Weaving textiles into museum programming
Laura Moseley unravels the growth of material craft as a form of political and social expression
Museum of… Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Burnley, Lancashire
Eleanor Mills discovers a museum that helps protect heritage weaving skills
Wish you were here | Is life always sunny for seaside museums?
At the height of the summer holiday season, John Holt dodges dive-bombing seagulls to talk to coastal museums about leaking roofs, fossil hunting and the grand old tradition of appropriating items from hotel bedrooms
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
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
