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The British Museum Podcast

The British Museum is famous for its objects, which represent over 2 million years of human history and culture. The objects speak to us thanks to the experts who have helped to tell their stories for... Read more

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The Museum podcast #14: Venetian maps and Volunteers.

The Museum podcast #14: Venetian maps and Volunteers.

This month Hugo, Sushma (pre-furlough) and Sian talk about how lockdown is affecting them and their work. Curator Sarah ... Read more

7 May 2020

45mins

Ranked #2

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The Museum podcast special: Women of Troy

The Museum podcast special: Women of Troy

Alexandra Villing, curator of the BP exhibition Troy: myth and reality talks with classicist Natalie Haynes about the wi... Read more

22 Jan 2020

54mins

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The Museum Podcast Christmas special: 12 objects for Christmas

The Museum Podcast Christmas special: 12 objects for Christmas

From us to you, a very British Museum Christmas gift: we invited twelve colleagues across the Museum to tell us about th... Read more

18 Dec 2019

38mins

Ranked #4

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The Museum podcast #10: Happy New Year!

The Museum podcast #10: Happy New Year!

Hugo and Sushma kick off 2020 with an interview with the Museum’s director, Hartwig Fischer. In the archives, Francesca ... Read more

1 Jan 2020

35mins

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The Museum Podcast episode #12: WOMEN!

The Museum Podcast episode #12: WOMEN!

In honour of Women’s History month Hugo and Sushma are exploring how women have interacted with the museum since its ope... Read more

4 Mar 2020

51mins

Ranked #6

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The Museum podcast #13: All about accessibility

The Museum podcast #13: All about accessibility

Unlucky for some, episode 13 of the Museum podcast sees the Museum closed for the first time since the war, but fear not... Read more

1 Apr 2020

42mins

Ranked #7

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The Museum Podcast #11: LGBTQ+ histories, stone tools and the Museum rifle club.

The Museum Podcast #11: LGBTQ+ histories, stone tools and the Museum rifle club.

This month Hugo and Sushma meet Stuart Frost – the Museum’s Head of Interpretation and Volunteers – to discuss how we cr... Read more

5 Feb 2020

54mins

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The Museum podcast #9 Season’s greetings from the British Museum

The Museum podcast #9 Season’s greetings from the British Museum

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, so Sushma and Sian (filling in for Hugo) are serving array of festive delig... Read more

4 Dec 2019

51mins

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The Museum Podcast #8: A is for Amazon, B is for blueprints, C is for communism

The Museum Podcast #8: A is for Amazon, B is for blueprints, C is for communism

Laura Osorio Sunnucks, head of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research, joins Hugo and Sushma... Read more

6 Nov 2019

36mins

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The Museum Podcast #7: Innovative exhibitions, international gold and noisy children

The Museum Podcast #7: Innovative exhibitions, international gold and noisy children

This month Hugo and Sushma are talking to Belinda Crerar about how the Museum uses changing displays in Room 3 to respon... Read more

2 Oct 2019

31mins

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