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

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

Growth plan

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

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

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

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

New order

Margaret Hodge has embraced her role as culture minister, but with a tough spending round looming, her enthusiasm could be tested, says Simon Stephens