Opinion

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What does the Covid-19 pandemic mean for Australian museums?

From adversity comes great opportunity, says Alec Coles

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Opening doors

A month after lockdown, Danish museums are shakily getting back on their feet. Ken Arnold gives a sneak peek into the new normal

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Why Liverpool is the right place for the national museum of slavery

The work done by the city's black community to tell this painful story cannot be dismissed

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If you can’t come to us, we will come to you

Sharing its collection digitally has allowed Tenby Museum and Art Gallery to connect with new audiences and generate income

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‘We should test our assumptions about what people want from us’

The Covid-19 crisis offers museums a chance to hold on to the best of the old ways while forging a new path

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My Primary School is at the Museum

Can this model help museums and schools to recover from Covid-19?

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Time to accelerate decolonisation

Everyone in the sector has a responsibility to actively dismantle white supremacy structures, says Haitham Eid

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A new chapter in a global narrative

EPIC museum in Dublin is documenting the efforts of Irish people to support communities during the Covid-19 pandemic

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Museums must go further if they want to be seen as ‘temples of the secular’

Cultural venues need to show the same commitment to civic society as religious bodies do

Collecting in the time of coronavirus

As curators, where does our experience of the pandemic end and the collecting project begin?

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Why has it taken a pandemic for museums to become more accessible?

The sector must remember disabled people when it reopens, says Samantha Bowen

It’s time to move the needle on disabled representation

There are too few disabled staff in the sector, but some museums are embedding recruitment strategies that work