%0 Journal Article %T Industrial museums and the potential of anniversaries %A Oliver Betts %D 2025 %V %N Autumn 2025 %K collaboration %K collaborative research %K Railway %K railway history %X Oliver Betts (Research Lead, National Railway Museum) reflects on the opportunities for new research opened up by significant museum anniversaries. %Z This paper was originally given as the Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture at King’s College London in March 2014.  %Z See, for example: Tim Adams, “I’m not afraid of anybody now’: the woman who revealed links between National Trust houses and slavery – and was vilified’, Guardian, 21 April 2024. %Z See, for example, Joe Ware, ‘Science Museum in London criticised for promoting oil giant backer’, The Art Newspaper, 16 November 2023. %I The Science Museum Group %@ 2054-5770 %B eng %U https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/industrial-museums-and-the-potential-of-anniversaries/ %J Science Museum Group Journal