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Reviews

Books | Museums and Societal Collapse: The Museum as Lifeboat, by Robert Janes

How museums could help save society

Creature comforts | The Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London

This renovated museum of natural history retains its former spirit, says James Ashworth

Behind bars | Juvenile In Justice, National Justice Museum, Nottingham

This exhibition explores what life is like behind bars for young offenders, but does it do enough to give them a voice?

Concealed/Reveal: Disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent artists driving creativity, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Disabled artists and creatives are everywhere you look in art history – this exhibition took a closer look at their histories

No Foreign Field, MCC Museum, Lord’s Cricket Ground, London

Tehmina Goskar on an exhibition that explores the growth of cricket throughout the world and its links to empire

Outi Pieski, Tate St Ives, Cornwall

Simon Stephens on a fascinating show that focuses on indigenous rights and links between humans, animals and nature

Art and soul | Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

An exhibition of landscape art, but does it achieve what it sets out to do?

On the right track | Go as you Please, National Railway Museum, York

Rediscovering train travel from the viewpoint of disabled people

Shy Burhan: Women In Uniform, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford

Charu Vallabhbhai on an exhibition by a local photographer that celebrates working women

Books | Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects by András Szántó

This 2021 book offers a sharp insight into how spaces will evolve, says Owen Hopkins

On my bookshelf | African Music, Power, and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe, by Mhoze Chikowero

This book about the complex history of music since the 1890s has been an inspiration for work around decolonisation

Digital reviews | The Tudors, sacred places around the world, and the Desmond Tutu archive

Rachel Ellis takes a scroll through the latest digital content