People
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
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
Q&A | ‘Having the opportunity to protect your voice and save your story is precious’
E-J Scott, founder of the Museum of Transology, on community, culture and collecting cardboard signs
Profile | ‘This story gives people a reason to come to the region and see its beauty’
As a festival launches in Tees Valley to celebrate the bicentenary of the first public rail journey, the event's director Niccy Hallifax tells us about the railway's role in regeneration, revolution – and even the advent of universal time
