Reviews
We Made It: Nuts, Bolts, Gadgets and Gizmos, Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
Stuart Burch gets his hands dirty at a celebration of British engineering in the city that could once claim to be the workshop of the world
Books: Self-Portrait as a Young Man
Timothy Mason is entertained by Roy Strong’s memoir of the "boy from nowhere who went somewhere"
Catalogue: Yinka Shonibare, Fabric-ation
Clare Lilley on why it pays to wait for in-situ photography for catalogues at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
On my bookshelf
Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris by Leanne Shapton
Historic Duxford, Imperial War Museum Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Simon Stephens approves of the IWM's new permanent exhibition at its huge Duxford site
Treasures, Cadogan Gallery, Natural History Museum, London
Peter Lewis has a long-standing love of the Natural History Museum but fails to fall for its Treasures exhibition
Charles Dickens Museum, London
Providing effective interpretation in writers' houses is never easy. Jonathan Conlin visits the revamped Charles Dickens Museum to find out how successful it has been
Dorking Museum, Surrey
A bequest by one of its volunteers allowed Dorking Museum to carry out a much-needed redevelopment. Caroline Worthington looks at the results
Books: Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience
An account of how the British empire exported its museums mostly impresses Timothy Mason