The Shetland Museum and Archives take a bit of getting to for non-islanders, but the newly opened building is worth the journey, says Sharon Heal

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of GlasgowThe Hunterian has made a small budget go a long way in a refurbishment that sheds light on the museum's founder, says Stuart Burch

Whatever their areas of expertise, all museum curators know about classification. Categorising and classifying individual items is how collections are created and sense is made from an array of artefacts. In this way, systems of knowledge are created. In natural history especially, classificatory activities usually follow a scientific method begun by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus. But what if one were to skew things a bit? The Argentine novelist Jorge Luis Borges once imagined a world in which animals were classified as either belonging to the emperor or not. It's between these two worlds that the American artist Mark Dion operates.

Sharon Heal on how the Florence Nightingale Museum wants to resuscitate the story of Britain's most famous nurse

Penny Ritchie Calder says the £30m London venue housing the remarkable range of artefacts amassed by Henry Wellcome is a fitting tribute to one of the world's most extraordinary collectors

This book is a timely reminder of the role that museums play in buying looted antiquities and the need for something to be done to stop the trade, says Jane Morris

An exhibition celebrating Maori and Pacific Island art and culture from New Zealand has brought a quiet university museum to life, says Jane Weeks

The National Portrait Gallery and the National Trust have joined forces to create what they claim is an innovative and ambitious redisplay for a historic house. Javier Pes judges its success

Coventry Transport Museum has stepped up a gear with its latest redevelopment, but it could still make its subject more accessible, writes Alison Porter

A museum that tells the story of the Salomons family has made a small grant awarded for its redevelopment go a long way, writes Sharon Heal

David Carr has an in-depth knowledge of the role of museums and libraries as places of learning, but his new book is not always an easy read, says Timothy Mason

Anthony Burton says Silver City shines light on the history of a local company, but a little more thought would have exposed more of the subject