Reviews

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

Catalogue: This World is Almost 6000 Years Old

Ashley Gallant on a multi-venue exhibition that brings together objects from Lincolnshire's archaeological holdings with works from young artists and new commissions

On my bookshelf

William Scott by Norbert Lynton

Saving Lives: Frontline Medicine in a Century of Conflict, Imperial War Museum North, Salford

This is a powerful exhibition that reveals the bravery and dedication of the medics on the frontline, says Jane Weeks

From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Edinburgh

Death seems to be a popular subject in museums at the moment. Stephen Lloyd takes the pulse of this offering from the National Galleries of Scotland

Bridewell Museum, Norwich

A revamped museum tells the story of Norwich and its people with imagination and verve, writes Tim Bryan

Dr Livingstone, I Presume? National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Neil Johnson-Symington enjoyed journeying through this exhibition about David Livingstone, but wanted a more dynamic approach to interpretation

Books: The House of Barnes

Timothy Mason enjoys an account of one of America's rudest and quixotic collectors, who nevertheless believed in the power of art

Catalogue: Worktown: The Drawings of Falcon Hildred

Rachael Barnwell traces the steps taken to do justice to a catalogue dedicated to architectural artist Falcon Hildred