Museum History Journal is the only international, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the history of museums. Focusing on how and why museums originated, developed and sustained themselves through collections, exhibitions, management, policy and public programmes as well as other key activities. Rather than focus on particular collections or leading curators and directors, we encourage articles that take a broad historical view of these organisations and institutions that seem to be as popular as ever. We particularly welcome submissions about regions that are under-represented in the existing scholarly literature: we want to go beyond the Anglophone focus of Western Europe and North America. We also encourage fresh scholarly approaches that integrate historical studies with the theories and methodologies of other humanities and social science disciplines. This journal interprets ‘museum’ broadly, including galleries and other collecting and exhibiting institutions. We welcome submissions on related institutions as well, such as botanical gardens, historical societies and sites, acquaria, planetariums and zoos.Peer review policy