By Stephen Johnston Jim Bennett (1947–2023): life as a museum practitioner By Harry Parker Book review: The Museum of Other People, by Adam Kuper (London: Profile, 2023) By Geoffrey Belknap Book review: What Photographs Do: The Making and Remaking of Museum Cultures By Naomi Haywood, Karen Davies and Lauren Souter Supporting young children’s learning from science objects: the importance of play on gallery By Kylea Little, Felicity McWilliams and Ellie Swinbank ‘South Kensington is practically as far away as Paris or Munich’: the making of industrial collections in Edinburgh, Newcastle and Birmingham By Abigail MacKinnon The BepiColombo ‘model’: looking beyond the ‘original’ By Meredith Greiling Smart and sustainable: collecting urban transport and mobility innovation in the 2020s By Elizabeth Bruton, Jeremy McCarthy and Dermot Turing Zygalski sheets: Polish codebreaking and the role of reconstruction in the Top Secret exhibition at the Science Museum By David H Lee Reports and commands: deciphering a health exhibition using the SPEAKING mnemonic By Imogen Holmes-Roe The Whitworth: a place for Industry and Art