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Reviews

Nature’s Library, Manchester Museum

Manchester Museum has created another successful gallery out of its enormous natural history collection, writes Dave Freak

Unseen Enemy, National Army Museum, London

This powerful exhibition would be even better if it told the broader story of all the victims, writes Yasmin Khan

Books: Hello World: Where Design Meets Life

Mark Suggitt applauds the scale and ambition of this book by the former director of the Design Museum

Catalogue: An American in London: Whistler and the Thames

Patricia de Montfort on a catalogue that invites readers to look deeper into Whistler's work on London's river

On my bookshelf: Hannah Crowdy

The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

Web and mobile: November 2013

We review the latest websites and mobile apps

Books

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

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