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Q&A | ‘We do not see immersive experiences replacing museums, but broadening access to cultural heritage’

Museums Journal meets the chief executive of DEM Museums, a global pioneer of the immersive exhibition model

Q&A | ‘It is a salutary reminder of the minutiae that ultimately shapes the course of history’

A new display on HMS Belfast examines the decision-making process at the heart of world war two’s D-day operations

Q&A | ‘I have great joy in working with artists to realise the visions that they have’

What is it really like curating a show with Ai Weiwei? Museums Journal sits down with Low Kee Hong, the creative director at Factory International in Manchester, to find out

Q&A | ‘The disability rights movement is presumed to have been small and niche, but it was huge’ 

David Hevey tells us about a new digital archive dedicated to the civil rights struggle that Britain forgot

Working life | ‘I’m passionate about exploring all sides of the criminal justice system’

Simon Tansley, the director of London’s Bow Street Museum of Crime and Justice, discusses a project inspired by the writer Oscar Wilde

Profile | ‘I don’t have a typical museum background – I’m really proud of getting to where I have’

For someone who never expected to work in the sector, Helen Hartstein now has her dream job at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Q&A | ‘If you’re going to attract funders, you’ve got to have a big, bold ambition’

As a new SS Great Britain museum opens, CEO Andrew Edwards talks to us about his wider plans for dockyard site – and how he dealt with a media backlash against its new name

Q&A | ‘Building meaningful participatory projects takes time, trust and investment’

Ameneh Enayat tells us how young people played a central role in creating the Story Museum's new immersive detective exhibition

Q&A | ‘I don’t think I ever thought we could ask to borrow The Hay Wain’

Emma Roodhouse, curator of Walking Constable’s Landscape, talks about the enduring quality of the artist’s work in the year that marks the 250th anniversary of John Constable’s birth

Q&A | ‘We have to bear our memory. Even if it is a nightmare, it should belong to us’

Museums Journal sits down with China's most famous dissident, Ai Weiwei, to talk history, rebellion – and his hopes of being forgotten

Profile | ‘Museums shouldn’t be afraid of income-generation’

Rebecca Atkinson talks to Sarah Hayes, the director of the Birmingham Conservation Trust and the Coffin Works, about breathing life into heritage buildings in the city

Q&A | ‘Frederick Horniman’s legacy lives on today – but in a world that is very different’

Director of content Peronel Craddock tells us about the Horniman’s plans for the future as it celebrates its 125th birthday