The Museum podcast #20: The Great Court at 20
This month we're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Great Court, so Sian and Francesca head to the archives to find out...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsSociety & Culture
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 s...
Episodes
20 of 30 episodesThe Museum podcast episode #19: the Arctic, Renaissance jewels and illicit antiquities
This month Hugo and Sushma check in with Amber Lincoln, lead curator of the Citi exhibition 'Arctic: culture and climate'. They talk with Ra...
The Museum Podcast #18: Collection Care, Tantra and a return to the archive
This month hails Hugo and Sushma's triumphant return – they are talking with Sandra Smith, head of C ollection C are about how your breath h...
The Museum podcast #17: National Programmes and afternoon tea
This month Sushma returns to presenting, talking with Maria Bojanowska, Dorset Foundation Head of National Programmes – they discuss the man...
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition falls on 23 August. To mark this date, Hartwig Fischer and Su...
The Museum Podcast Special: Sir Hans Sloane
In 1753, Sir Hans Sloane bequeathed his collection of over 70,000 objects to the nation, founding the British Museum's collection, and those...
A special announcement from the Museum podcast
This month we are doing something a little bit different, find out more in this special announcement!
The Museum podcast #16: Ice cream, olive oil and the Phrygian Sibyl
This month we're talking food history and Renaissance art. First up, Hugo talks to Alexandra Fletcher about the unlikely (to some!) combinat...
The Museum podcast #15: The inevitable Corona episode
This month Sushma is on furlough leave but Hugo and Sian interview Head of Collection Management Leonora Baird Smith about caring for the co...
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 Vowles gives us some...
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 – the podcast soldi...
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 opening in 1759. In the...
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 create narratives arou...
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 wives, mothers, seers,...
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 and Sian take a look...
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 their favourite object...
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 delights from the Museum....
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 to talk about Amazo...
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 respond to what is happeni...
The Museum Podcast #6: X-rays and pioneering women
Hugo and Sushma leave the cosy confines of the office and head into the basements to meet with Dan O'Flynn and his X-ray machine. Francesca...