Museums n'That
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Museums n'Out
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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. So is...
Conservators are dorks
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hayley Cropper's anorak! Here we go gang - signing off this series is self-confessed conservator dork Kloe Rumsey, Conservator at the People&apos...
A benign environmental dictator
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sustainability! Climate! Museums! Longshore Drift! All the main hitters.Talking us through it all is the powerhouse that is Sara Kassam (2 Sara's...
The Tower of London is a twice in a lifetime experience
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 are we at the T...
We have more than just butt plugs
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
We sure need plants
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 tell us all ...
The Brontës are the Kardashians
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Series 6 trailer
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
Stuffed with a partridge – AHA!
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Surprise! It's about time we treated you to another spesh, and when better to treat you than at Christmas.Visitor Assistant Steve Scholey pulls...
It can't just be at the International Slavery Museum
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the final episode in this series we nipped back down the canal to (potentially the second greatest city in the world) Liverpool.Where we met Ranma...
You are flippin' in the Queer Britain museum
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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+ museu...
I'd go between Paul and George
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who loves cream soda? Ethan Crabtree loves cream soda. This episode, lovely Ethan shares his experience of volunteering as a young person in the awa...
The very important documentary 'The Devil Wears Prada'
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 exhi...
We don't do bloodletting, no
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
I'm not Norman, I'm Joe
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Series 5 trailer
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 bee...
You'd struggle to get better than Stephenson's Rocket
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wafting a load of rhubarb farts into our final episode of the series is Rob Scargill, Interpretation Developer at the National Railway Museum.We'...
I like my exotic fruits
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Visitor Assistant and harbinger of exotic fruits Carmen Webbe.Carmen talks to Meg and Sara about black artists and subjects on ...
It's just Titanic isn't it
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SHIPWRECKS. FINALLY.And not just any shipwreck. Meg and Sara take a trip down the canal to Liverpool, where they chat with Ian Murphy, Head of the Mer...
I don't know if I've mentioned, but I'm vegan
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
200 years old we are. 200! years! old!This year Leeds Museums & Galleries celebrates a (very) big birthday, and Projects Curator Catherine Robins ...
Who the flip is David Hopes?
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bringing the sauce this episode - but eating absolutely none of it - is David Hopes, Head of Service at Leeds Museums & Galleries.Sara and Meg gri...
Hip hop doesn't ask for permission
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Did someone say series 4?*beat drop*To kick off the new series, Meg and Sara talk to actual real life best friends Lee Arnold aka. King Monk and Marek...
Series 4 trailer
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ho...
You do whatever you want my darlin'
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 our l...
Choccy butt-butts
18 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ant and Dec. Monica and Rachel. Wikipedia and Museums. The two best friends anyone could be!Our guest this week is lovely Hope Miyoba, Wikimedian-in-r...
Everybody wants some of my hair, I've got none left
11 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Florence Nightingale! ...unfortunately wasn't available to be interviewed for this episode, but Stephanie Davies (Assistant Community Curator at ...
He extracted some fluid from that blister
04 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this uncharacteristically relevant episode, Meg and Sara talk to lovely Owen Gower from Dr. Jenner's House, off of the birthplace of vaccinati...
The Sheriff of Nottingham is also a very naughty boy
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Magna Carta! Jay Z's 12th studio album and the medieval cornerstone of modern democracy. In this episode, we discuss both with Digital Engageme...
Del Boy of Early Modern Stratford
21 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 wo...
Series 3 trailer
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 read...
It is literally Christmas
21 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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.Who ...
All the Tits are in the same place
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Throw me on a skip and go for a curry
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bog bodies. Skeletons. Mummifying Alan. Kat Baxter, Curator of Archaeology at Leeds Museums & Galleries, answers all of our (many) burning questi...
Put all that virgo energy into spreadsheets
07 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and Assistant Registrar to the stars (Leeds Museums & Galleries) Emii Alrai is our guest this week, and the content is CHARMING.Emii brings...
Who the flip are Meg and Sara?
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Surprise! Our first (questionable) bonus episode.Turns out Meg and Sara are literally museum professionals too, so get to know more about your favouri...
They were the first Lighthouse Family
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Trains! Jelly tots! Chicken Jalfrezi! All the major food groups in one delicious museum podcast. Curator of industrial history John McGoldrick tells ...
Elijah Wood bought all these turnips
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Milo Phi...
Series 2 Trailer
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
So it was flapping around a bit
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Sara intervi...
They call him fruit punch mouth
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This one's a corker. Discover why fish and chips are bad, who's got tiny little teeth and the arty love affair that never actually quite hap...
Japanese tea flavoured KitKats, maybe
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meg and Sara get the tea on the wonderful country of Japan from Adam Jaffer, World Cultures curator at Leeds Museums and Galleries.We also discover wh...
I just like the word 'mooli'
13 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meg and Sara interview Chris Sharp, Assistant Community Curator at Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills and Thwaite Watermill, and owner of the lon...
It was an orange and we had no idea what to do with it
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meg and Sara interview Errin Hussey, Archivist for the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Museums and Galleries.Errin spills the beans on what archives a...
Slugs in ethanol and Julia Roberts
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode, Meg and Sara introduce themselves before interviewing Rebecca Machin, Curator of Natural Science at Leeds Museums and Galleries...
Museums n'That Trailer
14 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ey up and welcome to Museums n'That, a new podcast from Leeds Museums and Galleries. Museums attract passionate people like moths to a flame, an...