Maggie White

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18 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 14 May

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The Documentary Podcast · An animal exodus · 14 May 2026 podcast

We begin the process really with looking at everything that we have, opening every cupboard, opening every drawer to see what state everything is currently in.

So looking at a physical condition of something like you would when you move house, thinking, does that thing have a crack in it?

Does it need to be wrapped really, really carefully before we can put it in a box?

And a lot of our collections are going into fluid to be preserved.

So we have a lot of things in jars.

The type of trucks that we use have really, really high suspension.

So if you're driving down the motorway and you hit a bump, that bump isn't going to impact the cargo and that truck can be environmentally conditioned.

So if we need to, we can also have lorries that are temperature controlled throughout the moves for them going into their new home in Reading.

get you to come through this door.

So we use these as air locks to prevent pests getting in.

Beetles, moths, silverfish, there's all different types of insects that thrive on eating the organic matter and or packing materials that have been used.

So that's why you hear a lot about problems with anything, especially that has fur, feathers and

If we have bad environmental conditions or fluctuations and it gets really hot or the humidity rises really quickly, you can see that in your own house when you get a bug infestation.

The same thing can happen with museum collections and it can really detrimentally affect those collections very, very quickly if we're not on top of it.

So we want to make sure we freeze everything before we put them into that new clean space at the other end.

Maybe we take out windows.

We might take out doors.

It might be the case that we actually remove a part of the wall that we needed before and won't need in future.

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