By Helmuth Trischler Festschrift: how do we value artefacts in museum research? By Gemma Almond Why the anonymous and everyday objects are important: using the Science Museum’s collections to re-write the history of vision aids By Daniel Belteki A model instrument: the making and the unmaking of a model of the Airy Transit Circle By Miriam Dafydd A museum by the people for the people? A review of St Fagans National Museum of History’s new galleries By Helen Langwick Review: Behind the Exhibit: Displaying Science and Technology at the World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century By Hannah Bower An overlooked eighteenth-century scrofula pamphlet: changing forms and changing readers, 1760-1824 By Elizabeth Bruton Technologies of Romance: Valentine from a Telegraph Clerk (m) to a Telegraph Clerk (f): the material culture and standards of early electrical telegraphy By Anna Geurts and Oliver Betts The museum micro-fellowship By Elizabeth Haines and Anna Woodham Mobilising the Energy in Store: stored collections, enthusiast experts and the ecology of heritage By Tacye Phillipson Collections development in hindsight: a numerical analysis of the Science and Technology collections of National Museums Scotland since 1855