Reviews
Books: Museum Bodies, the Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing
A study of the behaviour of visitors in museums and galleries poses some interesting questions, says Sharon Heal
Birmingham: Its People, Its History, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Stuart Burch wonders if visitors can become part of the story being told in this exhibition about Birmingham's history
Thomas Henshaw, One Man’s Vision, Gallery Oldham
Bernard Knight visits an exhibition that celebrates 175 years of Henshaws Society for Blind People
Catalogue: In Front of Nature: The European Landscapes of Thomas Fearnley
When is a catalogue not a catalogue? Andrew Davies on developing a publication about an obscure 19th-century Norwegian painter
Books: Shakespeare’s Restless World
Neil MacGregor's use of objects to explore the age of Shakespeare is a great read, writes Louise Gray
Modern British Childhood 1948-2012, Museum of Childhood, London
Sharon Heal on an exhibition that reveals how children's lives have changed over the past 60 years
Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men, Museum of London
Jonathan Conlin probes the Museum of London’s expose of a harrowing trade in body snatching