People

Profile | ‘We can all get dewy-eyed over Mallard, but that’s not helping us into the future’

Judith McNicol, the director of the National Railway Museum, is looking ahead with confidence, says Simon Stephens

Working life | ‘Presenting such a complex concept in a museum was a challenge’

Senior curator Amina Wright on how belief and religion are represented in the Bishop Auckland's new Faith Museum

Q&A | ‘Apparently Shakespeare got a little bit worse for wear’

Museums Journal finds out about a new display at Shakespeare's Birthplace on the mythology surrounding the playwright

Q&A | ‘This exhibition challenges the Eurocentric notion of psychoanalysis’

Museums Journal gets on the couch with curator Jamie Ruers to dig deeper into an exhibition on Freud and Latin America

‘It’s a huge process of learning and unlearning, making progress with kindness as you go’

Radical Changemaker Award-winner Zeynep Kuşsan tells us about her groundbreaking work

Q&A | ‘One of our aims is to educate the public about the HIV/Aids epidemic’

Ruskin Collection curator Ashley Gallant on preparing to display the Terrence Higgins memorial quilt

Working life | ‘It takes courage to move community engagement to the heart of what you’re doing’

Harvinder Kaur Bahra talks about the Black Chiswick Through History community project

Moves

The latest appointments in museums and galleries

Profile | ‘There’s something in Bradford’s DNA that is activist and radical’

Rebecca Atkinson talks to Shanaz Gulzar, the creative director of Bradford 2025, about her plans to surprise visitors with the rich heritage and contemporary vibrancy of this youthful city

Obituary | Paul William George Lawson, 1945-2023

Energetic, unconventional and brilliant, Paul electrified the cultural landscape of Bradford

Q&A | ‘People in the Middle Ages were struggling with many things we’re still concerned with today’

David Silk, the learning manager at Newcastle Castle, reveals what his role embodies in the run up to the tour he's running as part of the MA conference

Anti-ableism issue | Advisory panel

Our editorial advisers for this Museums Journal themed issue