Museums n'That
Museums n'That is the podcast for anyone who thinks that museums are boring. Hosts Meg and Sara from Leeds Museums & Galleries get to the very heart of what makes museum people tick, by asking them the questions that you actually want to know. Does Bruce Springsteen have an archive? Do you ever try any of the old clothes on? What’s the greatest city in the world? Spoiler alert: it’s Leeds.
Episodes
46 episodes
Museums n'Out
Oh no. Oh dear. What's happening. We don't like it.A little news: that Meg over there has gone and got herself a new job! The sausage. So is this the last episode of Museums n'That ever? Maybe. Do we love you all deeply for the ...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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9:09
Conservators are dorks
Hayley Cropper's anorak! Here we go gang - signing off this series is self-confessed conservator dork Kloe Rumsey, Conservator at the People's History Museum in Manchester.Kloe exercises extreme patienc...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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42:46
A benign environmental dictator
Sustainability! Climate! Museums! Longshore Drift! All the main hitters.Talking us through it all is the powerhouse that is Sara Kassam (2 Sara's and a Meg - you're welcome) the benign environmental dictator at
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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42:20
The Tower of London is a twice in a lifetime experience
What do you get when you mix a hotel breakfast with the Chief Exhibitor at the Tower of London? A really good podcast episode.Not only are we at the Tower! of! London! (Meg's favouri...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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44:15
We have more than just butt plugs
The most butt heavy episode we've had yet. And that's saying something.Today's wonderful guest is Amelia Silver, a Curating for Change Fellow working with the Thackray Museum to make museums m...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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39:12
We sure need plants
A big ol' love letter to plants, this one. Dried ones especially. And our first returning guest!Clare Brown of S2 E7 fame is back to tell us all about herbaria. Herbarium? Herbariums. Dried plant specimens, stored in our collection at L...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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45:42
The Brontës are the Kardashians
Oh, hiya! Series 6 it is then kids.Sassy Holmes is the Programme Officer at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in lovely Haworth, so we invited her to come and teach us the wily, windy ways of literature's #1 family. We find out about the obje...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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49:09
Series 6 trailer
It’s us! We’re back. And for our 6th series of Museums n’That, we’ve lined up some extremely very good museum-y guests to tell us all about the weird and wonderful things they love the most.We’re talking Brontës, we’re talking climate ch...
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Season 6
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Episode 0
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0:43
Stuffed with a partridge – AHA!
Surprise! It's about time we treated you to another spesh, and when better to treat you than at Christmas.Visitor Assistant Steve Scholey pulls out all the festive stops in this episode, which was recorded at the effortlessly Chri...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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50:46
It can't just be at the International Slavery Museum
For the final episode in this series we nipped back down the canal to (potentially the second greatest city in the world) Liverpool.Where we met Ranmalie! Dr Ranmalie Jayawardana is the Community Participation Lead at the International ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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53:36
You are flippin' in the Queer Britain museum
Dan Vo: a vibe.A VERY exciting episode this week, as we interview self-titled Museum Queerator Dan Vo at Queer Britain - the UK’s first LGBTQ+ museum.Dan talks us through the stories that...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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48:49
I'd go between Paul and George
Who loves cream soda? Ethan Crabtree loves cream soda. This episode, lovely Ethan shares his experience of volunteering as a young person in the award winning Preser...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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48:14
The very important documentary 'The Devil Wears Prada'
Mum, we made it to the V&A!Meg and Sara embark on an epic adventure to the Big Smoke this episode, and end up in the Fashioning Masculinities exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Where they spent a lot of time stud...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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49:56
We don't do bloodletting, no
In this episode we chat to Assistant Community Curator Patrick Bourne about the history of Kirkstall Abbey: the hottest 870 year old you've ever seen.What's been ex...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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39:59
I'm not Norman, I'm Joe
We're back! Kicking off series 5 - and getting stung by a bee in the process which we did not arrange - is corker of a guest, Joe Vaughan. Joe is the Digital Editor at Reading Museum
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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52:41
Series 5 trailer
We’ve only gone and recorded another series. All hail series 5! This time around, we've been to London, we’ve been to Liverpool, we’ve been to Reading – and of course, the greatest of them all. We've been to Leeds. Expec...
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Season 5
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Episode 0
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0:48
You'd struggle to get better than Stephenson's Rocket
Wafting a load of rhubarb farts into our final episode of the series is Rob Scargill, Interpretation Developer at the National Railway Museum.We've done trains before, sure, but we haven't...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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48:01
I like my exotic fruits
Our guest this week is Visitor Assistant and harbinger of exotic fruits Carmen Webbe.Carmen talks to Meg and Sara about black artists and subjects on display at Leeds Art Gallery, her opinion on works and exhibitions and, most important...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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46:56
It's just Titanic isn't it
SHIPWRECKS. FINALLY.And not just any shipwreck. Meg and Sara take a trip down the canal to Liverpool, where they chat with Ian Murphy, Head of the Merseyside Maritime Museum.Ian walks us through their exhibition 'Titanic and Liv...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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43:34
I don't know if I've mentioned, but I'm vegan
200 years old we are. 200! years! old!This year Leeds Museums & Galleries celebrates a (very) big birthday, and Projects Curator Catherine Robins has been party-planning the whole shebang. Find out how to open an exhibition with an ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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40:30
Who the flip is David Hopes?
Bringing the sauce this episode - but eating absolutely none of it - is David Hopes, Head of Service at Leeds Museums & Galleries.Sara and Meg grill David about his credentials, and ask exactly how you get to be the head of a museum...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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46:46
Hip hop doesn't ask for permission
Did someone say series 4?*beat drop*To kick off the new series, Meg and Sara talk to actual real life best friends Lee Arnold aka. King Monk and Marek Romaniszyn. Lee is a Hip Hop aficionado - he runs King Monk studios and...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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43:24
Series 4 trailer
Hello everyone, it’s us.We’ve been at it again, and now we’ve got a brand spanking new series of Museums n’That lined up ready for your ear holes.Series 4 - can you literally believe they’ve let us have 4 series - is positively dr...
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Season 4
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Episode 0
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0:47
You do whatever you want my darlin'
It's fashion, hun. This episode's guest is Vanessa Jones, one of our curators of Dress and Textiles at Leeds Museums and Galleries.For our last episode of the series - can you believe! - we find out how to look fly as hell in the 1700s,...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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49:01