Kate Hulme

The National Trust has just announced that it’s inviting people to get closer to its properties ; to play the piano, pick up the telephone, have a game of pool. Is this the future for museums or does it turn going to a stately home into a slightly more glamorous version of going to see…

Good museum writing is concise and interesting (like all good writing). It’s also layered like a newspaper article – headline, key points, more in depth information. In theory, there should be simple, conversational language, line breaks that reflect natural pauses and a single idea per line of text. The last two can be hard to…

I recently went to Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge with my mum, and we were both inspired by the idea of placing objects together in a way that makes both sing a little more – a circle of pebbles next to a sculpture, a splash of yellow flowers bringing out a dash of acid yellow in…