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 objects and gathered their responses into a special Christmas compendium. Hear all about the objects that they find inspiring, and the stories behind them. Sushma Jansari – the Mathura lion capital (Room 33) Elizabeth Morrison –the Folkton Drums (Room 51) Sian Toogood – Greek slingshot (Room 69) Ros Winton – Ancient Egyptian model (Room 65) Tess Sanders – the Assyrian Lion hunt reliefs (Room 10) Lee Roberts – Painted Japanese screen (tigers crossing a river) (Room 92) Nick Harris – Japanese hand grenade casings in (Room 94) Francesca Hillier – Palmerston gold cups (Room 47) Alfie Meek – the Alfie lions (Room 47) Russ McKeown – Portrait of late director Lord Wolfenden (not on display) Richard Wakeman – the Vindolanda tablets (Room 50) Hugo Chapman – Samuel Palmer watercolour (Prints and Drawings Study Room)

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The Museum Podcast Christmas special: 12 objects for Christmas is an episode from The British Museum Podcast by British Museum.

This episode is 38:57 long.

This episode was published on Dec 18, 2019.

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