Museums n'That
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Museums n'That
Museums n'That is the podcast for anyone who thinks that museums are boring. Hosts Meg and Sara from Leeds Museums & Galleries get to the very heart of what makes museum people tick, by asking them the questions that you actually want to know. Does Bruce Springsteen have an archive? Do you ever try...
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Museums n'Out
Oh no. Oh dear. What's happening. We don't like it.
A little news: that Meg over there has gone and got herself a new job! The sausage. <...
Conservators are dorks
Hayley Cropper's anorak! Here we go gang - signing off this series is self-confessed conservator dork Kloe Rumsey, Conservator at the People's History...
A benign environmental dictator
Sustainability! Climate! Museums! Longshore Drift! All the main hitters.
Talking us through it all is the powerhouse that is Sara Kassam...
The Tower of London is a twice in a lifetime experience
What do you get when you mix a hotel breakfast with the Chief Exhibitor at the Tower of London? A really good podcast episode.
Not only a...
We have more than just butt plugs
The most butt heavy episode we've had yet. And that's saying something.
Today's wonderful guest is Amelia Silver, a Curating for Change F...
We sure need plants
A big ol' love letter to plants, this one. Dried ones especially. And our first returning guest!
Clare Brown of S2 E7 fame is back to tel...
The Brontës are the Kardashians
Oh, hiya! Series 6 it is then kids.
Sassy Holmes is the Programme Officer at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in lovely Haworth, so we invited...
Series 6 trailer
It’s us! We’re back. And for our 6th series of Museums n’That, we’ve lined up some extremely very good museum-y guests to tell us all about the weird...
Stuffed with a partridge – AHA!
Surprise! It's about time we treated you to another spesh, and when better to treat you than at Christmas.
Visitor Assistant Steve Schol...
It can't just be at the International Slavery Museum
For the final episode in this series we nipped back down the canal to (potentially the second greatest city in the world) Liverpool.
Wher...
You are flippin' in the Queer Britain museum
Dan Vo: a vibe.
A VERY exciting episode this week, as we interview self-titled Museum Queerator Dan Vo at Queer Britain - the UK’s first LGBTQ+...
I'd go between Paul and George
Who loves cream soda? Ethan Crabtree loves cream soda.
This episode, lovely Ethan shares his experience of volunteering as a young pers...
The very important documentary 'The Devil Wears Prada'
Mum, we made it to the V&A!
Meg and Sara embark on an epic adventure to the Big Smoke this episode, and end up in the Fashioning Masculin...
We don't do bloodletting, no
In this episode we chat to Assistant Community Curator Patrick Bourne about the history of Kirkstall Abbey: the hottest 870 year old you've ever seen....
I'm not Norman, I'm Joe
We're back! Kicking off series 5 - and getting stung by a bee in the process which we did not arrange - is corker of a guest, Joe Vaughan.
Series 5 trailer
We’ve only gone and recorded another series. All hail series 5!
This time around, we've been to London, we’ve been to Liverpool, we’ve been to...
You'd struggle to get better than Stephenson's Rocket
Wafting a load of rhubarb farts into our final episode of the series is Rob Scargill, Interpretation Developer at the National Railway Museum.
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I like my exotic fruits
Our guest this week is Visitor Assistant and harbinger of exotic fruits Carmen Webbe.
Carmen talks to Meg and Sara about black artists an...
It's just Titanic isn't it
SHIPWRECKS. FINALLY.
And not just any shipwreck. Meg and Sara take a trip down the canal to Liverpool, where they chat with Ian Murphy, H...
I don't know if I've mentioned, but I'm vegan
200 years old we are. 200! years! old!
This year Leeds Museums & Galleries celebrates a (very) big birthday, and Projects Curator Catheri...
Who the flip is David Hopes?
Bringing the sauce this episode - but eating absolutely none of it - is David Hopes, Head of Service at Leeds Museums & Galleries.
Sara a...
Hip hop doesn't ask for permission
Did someone say series 4?
*beat drop*
To kick off the new series, Meg and Sara talk to actual real life best friends Lee Arn...
Series 4 trailer
Hello everyone, it’s us.
We’ve been at it again, and now we’ve got a brand spanking new series of Museums n’That lined up ready for your ear hol...
You do whatever you want my darlin'
It's fashion, hun. This episode's guest is Vanessa Jones, one of our curators of Dress and Textiles at Leeds Museums and Galleries.
For o...
Choccy butt-butts
Ant and Dec. Monica and Rachel. Wikipedia and Museums. The two best friends anyone could be!
Our guest this week is lovely Hope Miyoba, Wikimedi...
Everybody wants some of my hair, I've got none left
Florence Nightingale!
...unfortunately wasn't available to be interviewed for this episode, but Stephanie Davies (Assistant Community Cu...
He extracted some fluid from that blister
In this uncharacteristically relevant episode, Meg and Sara talk to lovely Owen Gower from Dr. Jenner's House, off of the birthplace of vaccinations.<...
The Sheriff of Nottingham is also a very naughty boy
Magna Carta! Jay Z's 12th studio album and the medieval cornerstone of modern democracy.
In this episode, we discuss both with Digital...
Del Boy of Early Modern Stratford
Would you snog Othello? We've always asked the truly important questions, and this series will be no different.
We're back! We've got won...
Series 3 trailer
Lovely news! We've been chinwagging our way around the UK (is chinwagging a word?) and now we're back in the greatest city in the world ready to relea...
It is literally Christmas
Ho, ho - we can't stress this enough - ho.
We're back with an extra special Christmas episode with Kitty Ross, Curator of Social History....
All the Tits are in the same place
Could The Meg literally happen? How do you give a polar bear a wash and blow dry? Does Danny from DPD know how regularly he features on everyone’s fav...
Throw me on a skip and go for a curry
Bog bodies. Skeletons. Mummifying Alan.
Kat Baxter, Curator of Archaeology at Leeds Museums & Galleries, answers all of our (many) burni...
Put all that virgo energy into spreadsheets
Artist and Assistant Registrar to the stars (Leeds Museums & Galleries) Emii Alrai is our guest this week, and the content is CHARMING.
E...
Who the flip are Meg and Sara?
Surprise! Our first (questionable) bonus episode.
Turns out Meg and Sara are literally museum professionals too, so get to know more abou...
They were the first Lighthouse Family
Trains! Jelly tots! Chicken Jalfrezi! All the major food groups in one delicious museum podcast.
Curator of industrial history John McGo...
Elijah Wood bought all these turnips
Oh, this is a good one. Conor Clarke from the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield (the second greatest city in the world) has willingly, actually,...
Six legs, that's a party
Bum silk nests. How to shave a moth. Harry Styles. We're back, and starting Series 2 as we mean to go on.
Assistant Curator of Entomology...
Series 2 Trailer
We've been debating whether to sacrifice the high quality of our recordings (that we're so famous for) for series 2 by doing them remotely. The answer...
So it was flapping around a bit
Hold tight for sword fighting, Gandalf quotes and diggers that look a bit like hands.
For the last episode of this first series, Meg and...