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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...
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...
This month Hugo and Sushma check in with Amber Lincoln, lead curator of the Citi exhibition 'Arctic: culture and climate'. They talk with Ra...
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...
This month Sushma returns to presenting, talking with Maria Bojanowska, Dorset Foundation Head of National Programmes – they discuss the man...
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...
In 1753, Sir Hans Sloane bequeathed his collection of over 70,000 objects to the nation, founding the British Museum's collection, and those...
This month we are doing something a little bit different, find out more in this special announcement!
This month we're talking food history and Renaissance art. First up, Hugo talks to Alexandra Fletcher about the unlikely (to some!) combinat...
This month Sushma is on furlough leave but Hugo and Sian interview Head of Collection Management Leonora Baird Smith about caring for the co...
This month Hugo, Sushma (pre-furlough) and Sian talk about how lockdown is affecting them and their work. Curator Sarah Vowles gives us some...
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...
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...
This month Hugo and Sushma meet Stuart Frost – the Museum's Head of Interpretation and Volunteers – to discuss how we create narratives arou...
Alexandra Villing, curator of the BP exhibition Troy: myth and reality talks with classicist Natalie Haynes about the wives, mothers, seers,...
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...
From us to you, a very British Museum Christmas gift: we invited twelve colleagues across the Museum to tell us about their favourite object...
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....
Laura Osorio Sunnucks, head of the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research, joins Hugo and Sushma to talk about Amazo...
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...
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...
It's August and in the heat of summer, Hugo and Sushma chat to Podcast producer Alfie Meek about what it's like being a trainee at the Museu...
In this month's episode, Hugo and Sushma talk to Michael Lewis about the Portable Antiquities Scheme, metal detecting and finds of treasure...
June marks the 80th anniversary or the discovery and excavation of the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, one of the most important arch...
In this month's episode, scientist Kate Fulcher discusses her research into ancient Egyptian coffin residue – otherwise known as 'black goo'...
This month presenters Hugo and Sushma chat with Ceri Ashley who is coordinating the brand new endangered material knowledge project, a proje...
A brand-new podcast from the British Museum, the Museum podcast is a magazine-style show coming out on the first Wednesday of every month an...
At some point during the 1960s, there may have been as many as 100 cats living on the British Museum site. According to some newspapers they...
The ideal scenario for any archaeologist? Finding something different. Something unexpected. Something that had never been found by anyone b...
When war broke out in 1939 many of the British Museum's most valued objects had already been evacuated to safe locations across the UK. Howe...
It wasn't only people that were evacuated from London during the Second World War. Antiquities and works of art were moved outside of the ca...