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 By Peter Donhauser Museums theme – Science vs technology in a museum’s display: changes in the Vienna Museum of Technology with a focus on permanent and temporary exhibitions and new forms of science education By Tom Ritchie Ventriloquised voices: the Science Museum and the Hartree Differential Analyser By Bill Morrison and Jan Hicks The language of Electricity: Jan Hicks in conversation with Bill Morrison By Alice Cliff and Jenny Rinkinen Visualising electricity demand: use and users of a 3D chart from the 1950s By Michael Terwey Contexts for photography collections at the National Media Museum By Jo Quinton-Tulloch Editorial