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.