By Donata Miller ‘Everything passes, except the past’: reviewing the renovated Royal Museum of Central Africa (RMCA) By Alison Laurence A discourse with deep time: the extinct animals of Crystal Palace Park as heritage artefacts By Annie Thwaite A history of amulets in ten objects By Julie Ackroyd The provenance and context of the Giustiniani Medicine Chest By Tessa Murdoch and Jonathan Betts A royal gift? Mrs Strangways Horner’s small silver clock, 1740 By Martha Fleming Museums theme – making Split + Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine By Dirk van Delft Museums theme – Quest for Absolute Zero: A Human Story about Rivalry and Cold By Jennifer Landry Museums theme – Beyond the Black Box: reflections on building a history of chemistry museum By Sophie Goggins, Tacye Phillipson and Samuel J M M Alberti Prosthetic limbs on display: from maker to user By John Kannenberg Towards a more sonically inclusive museum practice: a new definition of ’the ‘sound object