Features

Mind your language

Developing the right tone in the language used in museums and galleries is a tricky business, but Laura Gascoigne says it's worth getting right

Share issue

Six senior curators on how they are passing on their knowledge to future generations. By James Morrison

People’s choice

A raft of new museum openings show how far social history has come in the past 60 years, writes Patrick Steel

Learning questions

The learning outside the classroom agenda is picking up pace, but are museums well placed to take advantage? Felicity Heywood reports

Light show

As managing curator of Artist Rooms, Lucy Askew is bringing modern art to new audiences all over the UK. By Simon Stephens.

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

Destigmatising mental illness is at the centre of the Bethlem Royal Hospital Museum and Archive’s work, says Louise Gray

Review of the decade

Sharon Heal looks back over the past ten years at the people, places and policies that made the headlines. Additional research by Geraldine Kendall

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

Charlotte Brontë liked the Red House so much, she put it in a novel. Now its museum picks up the story, writes Louise Gray

Mutual benefits

The recession has led to lots of people looking for volunteering opportunities, but do museums have the capacity to help them, asks Deborah Mulhearn

Growth plan

The Eden Project will celebrate its tenth anniversary next year, but chief executive Tim Smit is looking forward not backwards.

Buying power

Funding programmes to get museums acquiring again are helping to revitalise collections, writes Julie Nightingale

Rhayader Museum

Rhayader shows how a museum can place itself at the heart of a community.