People

Q&A | ‘Healing our soil is the most effective weapon we have against climate catastrophe’

As it prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary, Somerset House is digging deep with a landmark new art exhibition

Q&A | ‘Public engagement with the idea of buying original art has definitely changed’

As the Own Art loan scheme celebrates its 20th birthday, Mary-Alice Stack tells us how it has benefited artists, museums and the public

Q&A | ‘Peer support is so helpful, especially when you are a small organisation’

Hannah Little of the Clifton Suspension Bridge Trust on rebranding from visitor centre to museum after gaining Accreditation

Working life | ‘I think of museum galleries as real estate that curators don’t want to give up’

US-based artist Glenn Ligon talks about his new exhibition at Fitzwilliam Museum

Q&A | ‘Museums fear getting too close to Traveller communities – but they have a role to bridge the gap’

Georgina Stevens explains how how a project to interpret Worcestershire's Vardo collection has led to an art exhibition

Working life | ‘We’re adopting an ethical, people-centred approach to community engagement’

The Royal Armouries' Rob Freeman on a project to diversify the narratives of the museum

Q&A | ‘The shadow of eugenic thinking still hangs over disabled people today’

A groundbreaking new exhibition explores the untold stories of 13 British-born disabled people murdered by the Nazi state

Q&A | ‘Every new venue brings with it a chance to learn new things’

Consultant food historian Marc Meltonville is demonstrating Georgian cookery at Handel Hendrix House, but he's an expert in food and drink throughout history

Profile | ‘There’s a sense of culture being under attack’

Former MP Tristram Hunt, now director of the V&A, on why he left politics and the challenges of leadership in the era of the culture wars

Q&A | ‘There are intrinsic power dynamics that must be acknowledged’

Carrie Canham reflects on a co-curation project that explored the difficult legacy of British Museum founder Hans Sloane

Profile | Listen. Learn. Act.

Simon Stephens talks to community activist Michelle Charters, who is now leading a revamp of the world’s first standalone international slavery museum

Working life | ‘Things were sinking fast so I needed to put some basics in place’

Steve O’Connor reflects on a choppy first year as director of the River & Rowing Museum in Henley on Thames