Opinion
The rough guide to museum survival
Over the next few months museums will be faced with challenging funding decisions. Critical factors determining how successfully they respond will include their relationship with their stakeholders, their ability and willingness to ruthlessly evaluate themselves and their attitude to risk. Focus on the museum, not on the money. A thorough examination of why the museum …
Do master’s degrees help get jobs?
With degree fees on the rise and jobs in ever shorter supply, two cultural heritage students ask whether such master's degrees will really help them enter their chosen careers
Letters
Use of unpaid internships in museums continues to provoke debate A Museums Association poll that revealed more than 70% of respondents thought that unpaid internships were exploitative sparked a flurry of comments on the MA’s website. We reprint a selection of views here. David Cameron has made it clear he is “cool” with using connections …
Letters
Science museums are incapable of organising inspiring shows Ken Arnold and Thomas Söderqvist make some useful suggestions in their manifesto for creating engaging science, technology and medicine exhibitions. But is this a serious call to action or just some fanciful ideas about what science museum displays might be like in an ideal world? Sadly, impressive …
Letters
It’s all relative humidity Maurice Davies raised an interesting topic in his opinion piece Don’t touch that thermostat dial. He claims that for years we have been told to do all we can to achieve 50% relative humidity but the news is that we can aim for conditions of 40%–60% relative humidity or even wider. …