First up, a thoughtful piece on the future of museums: “It’s not enough just to call for ‘decolonization,’ a recent watchword in European museum studies; the whole fiction of cultural purity has to go, too. Any serious museum can only be a museum of our entangled past and present. The game is to not to tear down the walls, but to narrate those entanglements so that a new, global audience recognizes itself within them.”

Next is a unique museum in China: “one of the best things about Shanghai is… this museum tucked away in the basement of an unassuming building, spread out over three modest rooms filled with what is possibly the largest collection of Chinese propaganda posters anywhere in the world. Dating as far back as 1949, the 6,000-odd posters are a fascinating glimpse into 20th century China.”

Finally, history and science come together as a Chicago Museum releases its own gin: “Field Gin, created in celebration of the museum’s 125th (!) anniversary, is made with 27 botanicals, each selected from a list of the 1,500 botanicals from around the world that were brought to and displayed at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago.”

Any articles about museums you’d like to add? (Or a favourite museum to tell me about?)