Opinion
Letters
Return the human remains that are closer to home Following the return of human remains from UK museums to former colonial territories such as Australia, North America and most recently the Torres Strait Islands, isn’t it about time that the Royal College of Surgeons of England’s Hunterian Museum in London appropriately disposed of the remains …
Military museums have to work in partnership
My favourite places in the world are army museums, which seek to convey the whole breadth of human experience, from fear to courage, hatred to love, victory to defeat. There are 69 museums in the UK that receive Ministry of Defence (MoD) support for holding and presenting corps or regimental collections on behalf of the …
Genuine participation has a long way to go
The recent Cultural Equalities Now conference, hosted by the British Museum in partnership with the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past and Diversity and Heritage Group, took a timely look at equalities and diversity work in a new legal, policy and funding landscape. Working on this with practitioners and policy makers made me …
Head to head: Is free entry to national museums worth celebrating?
The first in a new column where museum professionals go head to head
Best of the blogs
This is from a recent post on Giles Miller's Curator of Micropalaeontology blog on the Natural History Museum's website
Vox pop
Is it wrong for the government to place such an emphasis on philanthropy when donations are in decline?
Letters
Extinct: natural history keepers in West Midlands Am I the only reader concerned by the unprecedented loss of natural history expertise from museums operated by local government, especially county services? When I joined Coventry’s Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in 1990 there were about 10 traditional keepers of natural history in the region. Over the …