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Reviews

Catalogue

Graham Fagen: Scotland + Venice 2015

Web and mobile

We review the latest websites and mobile apps

Homes of the Homeless, Geffrye Museum of the Home

Caroline Dew on an exhibition that explores what life was like for the huge numbers of Londoners who were homeless during the Victorian era

L8 Unseen and Tricia Porter: Liverpool Photographs, 1972-74

Exhibitions at the Museum of Liverpool and the Bluecoat are shedding new light on a long-established multicultural community in Liverpool

On my bookshelf

The Memoirs of Ann, Lady Fanshawe

Books

Life on Display: Revolutionising US Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century

The Whitworth, Manchester

Manchester’s gallery in the park has been reinvented for 21st-century audiences following a £15m redevelopment, writes Frances Guy

Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Beckenham, Kent

Emma Shepley is moved and fascinated by a newly designed museum that sensitively explores the lives of those people living with mental ill-health

The Atkinson, Southport

Art, local history and Egyptian treasures are among the eclectic mix offered at this recently opened venue in Sefton, says Rebecca Atkinson

Web and mobile

We review the latest websites and mobile apps

Books

Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics

Catalogue

Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions