Stately homes face many challenges, not least how they appeal to today’s visitors, but they are responding with sensitivity and inventiveness, writes Juliana Gilling

Harewood House's artistic director chooses a contemporary piece that draws on the property's revered fine art interiors

Rebecca Atkinson on a venue dedicated to championing women through the arts

Laura Moseley unravels the growth of material craft as a form of political and social expression

Eleanor Mills discovers a museum that helps protect heritage weaving skills

At the height of the summer holiday season, John Holt dodges dive-bombing seagulls to talk to coastal museums about leaking roofs, fossil hunting and the grand old tradition of appropriating items from hotel bedrooms

Claudia Cox explores items that range from a witch’s altar to a mummified cat

How Leicester Museum & Art Gallery has used digital tech and animation to bring this masterpiece, on loan from the National Gallery, to life

Geraldine Kendall Adams delves into the moral and ethical arguments that surround the highly sensitive issue of human remains held in museum collections

Natalie Tacq tells Museums Journal about the institution's ambitious plan to revitalise its green spaces

Museums are offering cities a green lifeline, says Simon Stephens

Britain’s gardens are stimulating audiences’ interest in plants by inviting artists to work with their horticultural teams