Opinion

The policy column

Both a lender and a borrower be

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

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Is it wrong for the government to place such an emphasis on philanthropy when donations are in decline?

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Editorial

Should museums tackle social justice?

Mick Waters

Call to action for cultural education

Nick Poole

Let's seize the digital opportunity

Katie Downey

A case for conflict-resolution training

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Sharon Heal: editorial

The case for cultural education is clear

The diary of a national museum director

Part 18

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 …

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In light of a national museum advertising a freelance education post at less than £8 an hour, are museums exploiting freelancers?