By Sarah Chaney and Sally Frampton Mind-Boggling Medical History: creating a medical history game for nurses By Jules Skotnes-Brown From the White Man’s Grave to the White Man’s Home? Experiencing ‘Tropical Africa’ at the 1924–25 British Empire Exhibition 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 Toria Forsyth-Moser Review: More than colours (or why some Austrian school children might not want to eat red Gummy Bears anymore) By Tim Boon, Roger Kneebone, Peter Heering, Klaus Staubermann and Yves Winkin A symposium on histories of use and tacit skills By Dirk van Delft Museums theme – Quest for Absolute Zero: A Human Story about Rivalry and Cold 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 Martha Fleming Museums theme – making Split + Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine 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