Opinion
‘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
My Primary School is at the Museum
Can this model help museums and schools to recover from Covid-19?
Time to accelerate decolonisation
Everyone in the sector has a responsibility to actively dismantle white supremacy structures, says Haitham Eid
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
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?
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
The best of times, the worst of times
After the pandemic, can museums help reinvent social closeness or will they be seen as a pre-corona indulgence?
Manchester’s next cultural wave will centre on social impact
We're collecting the evidence to show that museums really do change lives
Are permanent exhibitions a thing of the past?
This article was written before the coronavirus lockdown Dear Jon: I think there is a lot of value in permanent exhibitions, both for the public and for the museum. They show a large proportion of the collections that people wouldn’t see otherwise. They are a fabulous way of showing the highlights of the collections to …