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 By Donata Miller ‘Everything passes, except the past’: reviewing the renovated Royal Museum of Central Africa (RMCA) By Annie Thwaite A history of amulets in ten objects By Julie Ackroyd The provenance and context of the Giustiniani Medicine Chest By Robert Bud Museums theme – Adventures in Museology: category building over a century, and the context for experiments in reinvigorating the Science Museum at the turn of the twenty-first century By Tim Boon, Roger Kneebone, Peter Heering, Klaus Staubermann and Yves Winkin A symposium on histories of use and tacit skills By Barry Murnane, Darragh Murnane, Mark Sanders and Noel Snell ‘Great ease and simplicity of action’: Dr Nelson’s Inhaler and the origins of modern inhalation therapy