Reviews
American beauty
Sharon Heal goes to look for America in the Somerset countryside and finds a manor house that tells an unusual story
Rat’s tales
When Fulham Palace, former home to a millennia of London bishops, was renovated, curators had a few surprises, writes Sharon Heal
A facelift for the Headrow
LEEDS ART GALLERY, LEEDSMoney-conscious Leeds have achieved some impressive changes on a small budget, says Sharon Heal
Horse stories
A brisk canter round the Household Cavalry's new showpiece museum leaves Sharon Heal impressed
Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick
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
Hospital drama
Sharon Heal on how the Florence Nightingale Museum wants to resuscitate the story of Britain's most famous nurse
Family affair
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
The write stuff
A volunteer-run museum in Birmingham tells the story of how the city was once the centre of the world pen trade. By Sharon Heal
Private passion
Sharon Heal visits west London to see how order has been restored to the vast and eclectic collection of Thomas Layton
At the coalface
Sharon Heal makes a pit stop at the Scottish Mining Museum, which shows what life was like for those working in this unforgiving industry
Opening this month
From women's liberation to German Expressionism, Simon Stephens looks at this month's new exhibitions
Exhibitionist tendencies: Looking for fall out
A debris field is the technical term that is employed, often by geologists but increasingly by accident investigators, to describe fall-out. And it is this term that the Bolton Museums, Art Gallery and Aquarium’s exhibition officer Sarah Teale, in tandem with local artist and academic Phil Mouldycliff, have used to title their inventive and intensely …