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Q&A | ‘As they say, “Rome wasn’t built in a day”’

Jo Jones, Leicester's head of arts and museums, reveals how the new Jewry Wall Museum is bringing Roman Leicester to life

Profile | ‘Everyone was like “Oh my god, he’s actually serious”’

Jago Cooper, director of the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, explains why he took an unorthodox approach to transforming the museum

Q&A | ‘We made a lot of plasticine poo’

The Thackray Museum’s Jack Gann lifts the lid on its new child-led exhibition

Profile | ‘One of the things that is critical to our mission is to help people find their voice’

Clare Barlow, the director of People’s History Museum in Manchester, on democracy, speaking out and hope

Q&A | ‘Imagine knights charging at each other within a fully immersive digital landscape’

As Royal Armouries buys the freehold for its waterfront site, director Nat Edwards tells us what the future holds for the world's oldest museum

Q&A | ‘Institutions are beginning to see themselves not as fixed monoliths, but as evolving ecosystems’

Sigrid Kirk is organising Build Your Own Artworld 2025, a half-day conference that is exploring intersectional feminist leadership in the visual arts

Working life | ‘Condense what you do into language that inspires’

Matthew Bellhouse Moran, the recently appointed director of the Scottish Maritime Museum, on what he has learnt from his career to date

Q&A | ‘There was silence and an unknown ‘thing’ that wasn’t discussed’

As a new exhibition opens inspired by Holocaust testimony, artist Laura Nathan tells us how her works were informed by her experience as a third-generation survivor

Q&A | ‘Archives can offer a cathartic moment that transcends time and space’

Decolonising the Archive co-founder Connie Bell on how the organisation is shaping a non-western model for archival practice

Q&A | ‘We hope the V&A East Storehouse inspires museums to be more radical about using reserve collections’

Tim Reeve, V&A East Storehouse’s chief operating officer, shares his vision for the new accessible storage facility

Moves

The latest appointments in museums, galleries and heritage

Working life | ‘After a few days, I knew the museum would be a wonderful place to work’

Matt Moore, director of the Science Museum Group’s Science and Innovation Park, on problem solving, sustainability and being a communicator