Reviews

Tales from the City, Museum of Liverpool

Fifty years after the reform of anti-gay laws, Lisa Gillen learns how it has affected Liverpool’s LGBT+ community

Best in show

Private Thomas Walker, 1856, by Thomas William Wood - Compton Verney, Warwickshire

International Bomber Command Centre, Lincoln

Rebecca Morris-Buck is drawn to the compelling stories of those who served and suffered in the second world war’s bombing campaigns

Books

Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America

Catalogue

America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper

Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro

Natalie Rigby discovers four fresh exhibitions that the institution hopes will make waves as it celebrates its 200th birthday

Headstone Manor & Museum, Harrow, London

This is an intriguing historic site that’s slightly let down by its attempts to be all things to all people, says Steve Gardam

Digital

We review the latest websites

On my bookshelf

Postcard Stories, by Jan Carson

Books

The Future of Natural History Museums, edited by Eric Dorfman

Digital

We review the latest museum sector websites

Brooklands Museum, Surrey

Oliver Green marvels at the technological and engineering innovations revealed by the reimagining of a significant site for British motorsport and aviation