Features

Still pale, male and stale?

Three years ago, the then culture minister David Lammy accused museums of failing to employ enough people of African and Asian descent in top-level jobs. Has the situation improved since then, asks Felicity Heywood

New kid on the block

Culture minister Ed Vaizey tells Simon Stephens about the challenges ahead for museums and galleries in a tough financial environment

In the frame

Audiences for photography are growing, but digitisation and broader definitions of the medium are creating challenges for museums. By Simon Stephens

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

Louise Gray hears how the Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives tells the story of the city's cops and robbers 

Opening up the debate

Museums are being urged to adopt a more open attitude to restitution. By Maurice Davies

Portrait of a nation

A new approach to telling the history of Sweden is proving to be controversial. Diana Walters reports

Diverse voices

Felicity Heywood talks to participants in the Museums Association's Diversify scheme to find out how it has helped their careers

The great outdoors

Showing sculpture outdoors is a good way to engage the public in settings that they feel comfortable with, says Deborah Mulhearn

Buying powers

Museums have had some success in improving their collections of Scottish contemporary art in recent years, but there are concerns that any funding squeeze will halt this momentum. By Gareth Harris

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

Mompesson House is on such an intimate scale that most of its visitors want to move in, says Louise Gray

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

Clare Ancient House Museum makes up in imagination and interpretation what it lacks in space, says Louise Gray

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

Louise Gray joins the tourists who come off the main Lakeland tourist track to visit Coniston's Ruskin Museum