This is not a museum - audio stories from our favourite museums

The Journey of Information

Not just a guide, but stories in sound, exploring objects that carry memory, movement, and imagination. Listen and follow the echoes of history across time and place. Season 1: British Museum, London takes you to the British Museum in London, Season 2: National Museum of Korea, Seoul explores the National Museum of Korea in Seoul.

  1. Ten-story pagoda

    11/06/2025

    Ten-story pagoda

    This tall stone once stood in what is now North Korea.Dismantled during the Japanese occupation and later rebuilt in Seoul, it carries the traces of travel, loss, and the long return of beauty.

    4 min
  2. Golden Crown

    11/06/2025

    Golden Crown

    This dazzling gold shows how the Korean peninsula was already connected to the wider Eurasian world - through trade, belief, and imagination that shimmered across thousands of miles.

    3 min
  3. Hand axe

    11/06/2025

    Hand axe

    This quiet stone changed how we see East Asia. Shaped nearly 300,000 years ago, it revealed that early humans here made tools just like those in Africa and Europe, proving that the story of human beginnings was never one-directional.

    4 min

  4. 08/17/2025

    Songline Painting | Room 24

    Across the desert, stories were maps. These Songlines told people where to find water, food, and how to walk the land — a memory system sung aloud.

    4 min

  5. 08/17/2025

    Benin Bronzes | Room 25

    Bronze heads and coral crowns, history stolen.

    3 min

  6. 08/17/2025

    Assyrian Palace Reliefs | Room 7

    Walls that spoke of kings, conquest, and gods.

    4 min

  7. 08/17/2025

    Flood Tablet | Room 55

    An ancient tablet that carries the first great flood story.

    4 min

  8. 08/17/2025

    Clay Tokens & Envelopes | Room 56

    Before writing, people counted with clay tokens sealed in envelopes — the first step toward cuneiform.

    3 min
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Not just a guide, but stories in sound, exploring objects that carry memory, movement, and imagination. Listen and follow the echoes of history across time and place. Season 1: British Museum, London takes you to the British Museum in London, Season 2: National Museum of Korea, Seoul explores the National Museum of Korea in Seoul.

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