Now in its 32nd year, Museum Management and Curatorship remains one of the world’s leading journals for museum professionals. It is authoritative; its articles are double-blind peer-reviewed, and represent a consistently high standard in academic publishing. It welcomes articles from across the full spectrum of museum activity, from conservation to curation, from to art law to digital technology. It considers every aspect of museum management, form the theoretical models used to understand best practice, to the practical issues of conservation and exhibition installation. It is also international, and continues to be the museum journal of choice for scholars and professionals for whom English is not a first language, and for young professionals for whom the MMC provides the platform for their first major paper. MMC is also one of the few truly international museum journals, and it continues to be a platform for contributions from around the world. This makes it possible for the museum community to better understand the complexity of the issues that face museums in different settings, and the need to adapt their own thinking to take into account different legal, social and historical contexts. With this final issue in 2017, we look at a range of issues surrounding the changing demographic of the museum visitor, and at initiatives intended to attract new and more diverse audiences. Moreover, the issue looks at selected aspects of museum communication in the broadest sense, which includes storytelling, education and architecture. As always, we invite readers to suggest themes they would like explored, and of course, to submit papers they believe relevant to contemporary museum management and curatorial practice. I look forward to hearing from you, and working together to ensure the MMC continues to meet the needs of the entire museum field.
