Reviews

Books

Museums, Health and Well-Being: essential reading for museums involved in healthcare

Experience Barnsley, South Yorkshire

Maurice Davies finds an excellent museum with bright and attractive displays in Barnsley's town hall

Witches and Wicked Bodies, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Lyndsey Mackay is fascinated by this study of the depiction of witches in art

Books: Museum Architecture: A New Biography

Timothy Mason fails to get a buzz from this new study of museum architecture

Catalogue: Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood

Susan Bright on a book to accompany a show about motherhood at two London museums

Horrible Histories: Spies, Imperial War Museum, London

Simon Stephens braves exploding camel poo and irritating itching powder to visit the latest exhibition tie-in between Imperial War Museums and Horrible Histories

Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth

Oliver Green wanted to see a more thoughtful approach to the interpretation at the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth

On my bookshelf: Anna Garnett

Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity by Elliott Colla

Memory Palace, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Sharon Heal on an innovative exhibition that sees artists respond to a dystopian future where all knowledge has been lost

Best in show

Alchemical lion image from the Ripley Scroll, 15th century, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

On my bookshelf

Waterland by Graham Swift

Catalogue: From Death to Death and Other Small Tales

The images in this catalogue are arranged to reflect the juxtapositions of the two collections that are presented in the exhibition, says Lucy Askew