Beneath the Blue

Lots of objects in the Ashmolean have got secrets hidden under their surface. Join the Ashmolean’s Conservation Research Fellow and colour detective Tea Ghigo, as she looks at a special bookcase with a suspicious shade of turquoise on it. Armed with an X-ray spectrometer and an infrared camera, she’s managed to find something strange lurking beneath the blue. When Tea looks at this bookcase, she sees a Venetian carnival and smells citrus fruits. What about you? The Great Bookcase – View it here If you want to take a closer look at the object in this episode, you can view it at the link above, or visit the podcast page on the Ashmolean website: ashmolean.org/museum-secrets Producer: Lucie Dawkins Presenters: Lucie Dawkins and Tea Ghigo Tea's research on the Great Bookcase is part of a European Research Council-funded project called Chromotope. Find out more . About Museum Secrets: Welcome to season 2 of Museum Secrets. Every week Lucie Dawkins will take you behind the scenes at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. There are a million objects here in the Museum, each with its own hidden story. Come on in, as we track down the weird and wonderful among them, to give us a bitesized pick-me-up in these challenging times. Join us every week for a daily dose of cheer. Support the show

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Beneath the Blue is an episode from Museum Secrets by Ashmolean Museum.

This episode is 12:30 long.

This episode was published on Apr 2, 2021.

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