By Tim Boon, Roger Kneebone, Peter Heering, Klaus Staubermann and Yves Winkin A symposium on histories of use and tacit skills By Tim Boon, Annie Jamieson, John Kannenberg, Aleks Kolkowski and James Mansell ‘Organising Sound’: how a research network might help structure an 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 Justin Dillon Editorial By Barbara Gribling The Panstereomachia, Madame Tussaud’s and the Heraldic Exhibition: the art and science of displaying the medieval past in nineteenth-century London By Ken Arnold Review: The Return of Curiosity, by Nicholas Thomas By Jo Quinton-Tulloch Editorial By Elizabeth Pye Challenges of conservation: working objects By Tilly Blyth Editorial By Ken Arnold Thinking things through: reviving museum research
