Museums n'That Leeds Museums & Galleries

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 her to come and teach us the wily, windy ways of literature's #1 family. We find out about the objects they have in the museum, including ones found hidden in the walls - we cannot - and hear some frankly cracking ghost stories too.

Sassy also tells us all about their new exhibition, The Brontë's and the Wild, which you can read more about here: https://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/1267/the-brontes-and-the-wild

And, y'know. Go to Haworth guys.

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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 and wonderful things they love the most.
We’re talking Brontës, we’re talking climate change, we’re talking conservation to name a few – and guys, we’ve done it, we’ve gone and bloody done it: we’re talking the Tower of London.
And naturally we also end up talking about what kind of curry we’d be, how much we love the Thames Clipper and what Hillary Clinton smells like. But the jury’s still out on that one.
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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.

Joe is the Digital Editor at Reading Museum and the Museum of English Rural Life, and he popped on the pod to talk to us about being a pretty big cheese in the world of social media (and everything that comes with it).

Please note that although it may seem like it, this podcast is not sponsored by the Zadar Museum of Ancient Glass or Shed Cafe's sandwiches.

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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.

What's been excavated here? What's been the haps for the last 8 centuries? Where did the monks go for a poo?

We also find out about the ghostly goings on at Abbey House Museum, and write a little love letter to peshwari naan.

The Kirkstall Lives exhibition we chat about is fantastic, and open until December 2022.

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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 Masculinities exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Where they spent a lot of time studying Harry Styles' footwear.

Curator - and ex Leeds Museums and Gallleries alumni - Rosalind McKever talks us through the exhibition, what it's like working at the V&A, and her list of art history boyfriends.

The Fashioning Masculinities exhibition is open until 6 November, and you can buy tickets here.

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Who loves cream soda? Ethan Crabtree loves cream soda. 

This episode, lovely Ethan shares his experience of volunteering as a young person in the award winning Preservative Party - still going strong! - at Leeds City Museum, and essentially just spends 45 minutes proving that all museums should be run by young people.

We learn about their upcoming exhibition, Overlooked, and hear about the time he broke every museum rule ever at the Liverpool Beatles Museum.

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