Features

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

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

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

Rhayader Museum

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

Modern times

Simon Stephens visits Istanbul to find out how the city is leading the development of museums in Turkey in the run-up to its year as the European Capital of Culture in 2010

Food glorious food

Museums in the Fens are hoping that a travelling exhibition about food, which will address everything from migrant workers to climate change, will help to raise their profile. By Simon Stephens

National service

Simon Stephens discovers how army museums can keep their collections relevant once the regiments they represent have been disbanded

Open door policy

Stephen Snoddy tells Felicity Heywood about his vision for getting artists and visitors into the New Art Gallery Walsall and taking its work beyond its four walls

Cafe Society

Can museum cafes become the democratic debating chambers of the 21st century? By Dea Birkett

Lost treasures

Iraq's cultural heritage has been one of the casualties of a war that has just reached its grim fifth anniversary. By Patrick Steel