Reviews
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 …
Enforcing abolition
Julia Edge on a compact exhibition that follows the role Britain's navy played in trying to stop slave traders in the wake of the abolition act
Galleries of Modern London, Museum of London
Mark Suggitt is impressed by the Museum of London's approach to telling the complex story of the capital during the past 350 years
Florence Nightingale Museum, London
The story of pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale is successfully brought to life by the museum that bears her name, writes Jane Weeks
Books: How To Get a Job in a Museum or Art Gallery
Can this practical publication crack open a sector that is so difficult to enter? Full marks for trying, says Charlotte Holmes
Opening this month
From the elaborate art of Iran's Book of Kings to the plain space of John Pawson: Geraldine Kendall selects the pick of September's new exhibitions