In practice

Quick tips: designing loan boxes

Creating secure containers and dealing with breakages

How to sustain a loan-box scheme

Operating models vary widely

Quick tips: pricing loan boxes

Maintaining resilience in a competitive market requires financial astuteness

Bringing loan boxes to life

Supporting material and training are essential

The Open Museum, Glasgow

Co-creating a second world war loan box with community groups

National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

Revamping an Egyptian loan box

The Wilson, Cheltenham

A volunteer-run loan box service

Weston Gallery, Nottingham

Learning points from a collaborative loan box project

Quick tips: using loan boxes

Five ways to increase their scope and appeal

Audiences invited to engage with empty gallery space

Cancelled exhibition at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art questions the value and function of cultural institutions

Tate launches interactive website for children

Website includes games, quizzes and videos

Virtual reality at smaller museums

Virtual reality doesn’t have to be time-consuming or expensive