By Annie Thwaite A history of amulets in ten objects 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 Alison Laurence A discourse with deep time: the extinct animals of Crystal Palace Park as heritage artefacts By Dirk van Delft Museums theme – Quest for Absolute Zero: A Human Story about Rivalry and Cold 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 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 Joshua Butt Adapting to the emergence of the automobile: a case study of Manchester coachbuilder Joseph Cockshoot and Co. 1896–1939 By Charlotte Sleigh ‘Not one voice speaking to many’: E C Large, wireless, and science fiction fans in the mid-twentieth century