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Reviews

Book review | Museums, Refugees and Communities

This thought-provoking book shows how museums could help support refugees

House style | Leighton House Museum, Holland Park, London

The studio-home of 19th-century artist and sculptor Lord Leighton has reopened after a major redevelopment

Face value | Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk

This redevelopment of the artist’s childhood home and its dramatic new gallery complex is very impressive

Child’s play | Eureka! Science + Discovery, Wirral

This fun, educational attraction engages youngsters, but it's worth planning your visit carefully

Code of honour | The Intelligence Factory, Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire

This redisplay decodes the codebreakers by placing them at the heart of the story

Body politics | British Tattoo Art: Reclaiming the Narrative, National Maritime Museum Cornwall

Is this exhibition more inclusive the second time around?

Book review | The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology

This publication is a sound starting point for those wanting to understand the context and challenges of contemporary museum archaeology

On my bookshelf | Brief Biographies of British Mycologists

Why it's always important to know the person behind the discovery

Digital reviews | Channel by Somerset House, Wonderlab AR and the Daily Herald Archive

We take a scroll through the latest digital content

Lost in space | Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination, Science Museum

This exhibition needs to give visitors more time and space to think about scientific progress

Dirty cash | Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This exhibition uses a numismatic collection to tell stories of protest but some of the content is hard to stomach

The beautiful game | Art of the Terraces, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

A refreshing exhibition on the birth of football casual culture that mostly avoids falling into cliché