Museums n'That

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 this the last episode of Museums n'That ever? Maybe. Do we love you all deeply for the support you've given us throughout the last 6 series? Absolutely. Did Danny  listen to us and ask DPD to change his delivery route? 100%.Thanks so much. Museums n'That might be back. But in the meantime, you are always very welcome to stay in touch - @saralmerritt, @MuseumMeg and @LeedsMuseums on ye olde Twitter.Over and out xSupport the show

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 Museum in Manchester.Kloe exercises extreme patience this episode as we ask her all of our burning questions about conservation. Are there big sciencey chemicals involved? How do you deal with the responsibility of trying fix extremely precious artefacts? And the big one - the question we've always known would come up, in a way:What does Hillary Clinton smell like? Kloe also hosts the brilliant podcast The C Word - The Conservators' Podcast. If you like this, you'll absolutely like that, so give it a listen. If you liked the episode, listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show

Sustainability! Climate! Museums! Longshore Drift! All the main hitters.Talking us through it all is the powerhouse that is Sara Kassam (2 Sara's and a Meg - you're welcome) the benign environmental dictator at UK Sport and previous Sustainability Lead at ye olde V&A. Sara is also Sustainability Advisor at the Museums Association, and most importantly of all, has great taste in snacks. If you liked the episode, listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show

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 Tower! of! London! (Meg's favourite place in the world) this episode, but we have the absolute pleasure of talking to Chief Exhibitor Nivek Amichund. And opening his post.Nivek talked us through how he got to be in this whopper of a role, life living at the Tower and ghost stories and quirks from around the site. We had the absolute best time. Thanks Nivek - see you at the next breakfast buffet.If you liked the episode, listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show

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 Fellow working with the Thackray Museum to make museums more accessible for people with disabilities. Amelia tells us all about her route into her role, including lots about her own disability and how that lead to her working on this project. We get into what museums could be doing better,  their new exhibition Private Parts and where to look for sex toys in Leeds City Centre.Variety! It's the butt plug of life.If you liked the episode, listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Ps. At the end of this episode, we do our usual thanks to Tim Bentley for doing our theme music, and to Alex Finney for doing our... theme music. Al did our cover artwork! Silly sausages.Support the show

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 about herbaria. Herbarium? Herbariums. Dried plant specimens, stored in our collection at Leeds Discovery Centre. Why should we collect them? How do we dry them? Stick your nose in a female plant, and what does it smell like?Big thanks to Clare, and big thanks to you for listening. If you liked the episode, listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show

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-wildAnd, y'know. Go to Haworth guys.If you've enjoyed listening, then subscribe on all the usual podcast suspects and leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts. Ta very much.Support the show

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.Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to be the first to hear the new series of Museums n'That – coming to your lugholes very soon.Support the show

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 out all the festive stops in this episode, which was recorded at the effortlessly Christmassy Temple Newsam.  Find out what the rapscallions that lived there did to celebrate the season 500 years ago - yule logs were real logs, guys - and listen to us, the modern day rapscallions, eat some delicious Ecclefechan tarts. Ecclefechan.We also get shouted at by around 30 young children. Merry Christmas, gang!Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show

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 Ranmalie! Dr Ranmalie Jayawardana is the Community Participation Lead at the International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum at National Museums Liverpool. She's currently working on the Waterfront Transformation Project and is doing lots of very important things to make sure local communities feel connected to and represented in the museum.We also hear quite a bit about Ranmalie's sausage sandwich.Huge thanks to all of our guests and listeners this series! If you've enjoyed listening in, then subscribe on all the usual podcast suspects and leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts. You're the best.Support the show

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+ museum.Dan talks us through the stories that the museum tells, why the work they're doing is so important, and the impact it's had so far. Basically, how to museum good.Go and visit! Right now! Go go go! If you enjoy the episode, subscribe on all the usual podcast platforms and give us a review on  Apple Podcasts.  There's a good sport.Support the show

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.If you enjoy the episode, subscribe on all the usual podcast platforms and give us a review on  Apple Podcasts. Bless and thank you!Support the show

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.If you enjoy the episode, subscribe on all the usual podcast platforms and give us a review on  Apple Podcasts and you'll be simply the best. Better than all the rest.Support the show

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.If you enjoy the episode, subscribe on all the usual podcast platforms and give us a review on  Apple Podcasts and we'll love you for at least 870 years. That's a promise.Support the show

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.This one's a cracking start to a great series - subscribe on all the usual podcast suspects to be the first to hear every episode, and give us a review on  Apple Podcasts if you fancy being fantastic.Support the show

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 Reading – and of course, the greatest of them all. We've been to Leeds. Expect chats about all things museums, but like, only the interesting bits: bloodletting monks, Harry Styles at the V&A, and absolute units.  If that sounds like a bit of you then subscribe to Museums n'That wherever you get your podcasts, to be the first to hear Series 5, coming very soon. Support the show

Wafting a load of rhubarb farts into our final episode of the series is Rob Scargill, Interpretation Developer at the National Railway Museum.We've done trains before, sure, but we haven't done interpretation now have we guys. Rob explains how everything (literally, everything) you experience in a museum is thought out - from the stories you tell about an object to the colour light you shine on it.This episode also features a live moderate disaster, when we accidentally melted Sara's headphones. As she was wearing them.Huge thanks to all of our guests and lovely listeners this series! If you've enjoyed listening to our silly little questions, then subscribe on all the usual podcast suspects and leave us a review on  Apple Podcasts.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 display at Leeds Art Gallery, her opinion on works and exhibitions and, most importantly, her experience as a black woman working in a public facing role at an art gallery.Links to things talked about if you'd like to find out more:Five,  by Lubaina Himid (which we say is in our collection - it isn't! Silly us. It's on long loan to Leeds Art Gallery).Melita, by Ronald Ossory Dunlop Visit Ashley Holmes' websiteThere's a case study on the MyLearning website about Retribution by Edward ArmitageListen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 Merseyside Maritime Museum.Ian walks us through their exhibition 'Titanic and Liverpool: the untold story' and we find out about the objects they have relating to Titanic, how collecting from a wreck site works and some of the (sad) stories they tell at the museum.We also find out about the time Meg threw a piece of fish at the Longleat river boat.Find out more about the Titanic and Liverpool exhibition and have a look through their Titanic collection online.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

200 years old we are. 200! years! old!This year Leeds Museums & Galleries celebrates a (very) big birthday, and Projects Curator Catherine Robins has been party-planning the whole shebang. Find out how to open an exhibition with an army of excellent volunteers, what happened when Leeds was bombed in 1941 and what celery has to do with a budgie called Papa Guy.Do not expect to find out what a fossil is, because we literally do not know.Find out more about our 200th BirthdayListen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

Bringing the sauce this episode - but eating absolutely none of it - is David Hopes, Head of Service at Leeds Museums & Galleries.Sara and Meg grill David about his credentials, and ask exactly how you get to be the head of a museum. He tells us some cracking stories about Brian Cox and Lulu (finally!) and, you know, says really interesting things about museums (n'that).Big thanks to David for being a great sport. This episode also features a special guest cameo from Milo off of S2E1, who was extremely thirsty for some brownie points.Listen,  subscribe and leave a review on all of your favourite listening platforms.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 Romaniszyn.  Lee is a Hip Hop aficionado - he runs King Monk studios and is the brains behind the Hip Hop Historian Society. Marek is the Assistant Community Curator at Leeds Museums & Galleries and really likes Ninja Turtles.We find out (lots) about Leeds' hip hop roots, and ask how we go about collecting that kind of history. Marek and Lee chat about the exhibition they have planned in 2023, and, as always, their favourite takeaways.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 holes.Series 4 - can you literally believe they've let us have 4 series - is positively dripping in wonderful guests, putting up with our silly little questions. This series we learn about hip hop history (that's right, we're cool now), and find out how you get to be the director of a museum. And, crucially, we do talk condiments. God, we're even doing videos this series. Send help.Subscribe, tell all your friends - but also, do what you want - to be the first to hear the new series of Museums n'That, coming very soon. Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 last episode of the series - can you believe! - we find out how to look fly as hell in the 1700s, why fashion sustainability is nothing new and what the deal is with historical sweat.We also get deep - too deep? - into socks.You can read Vanessa's blogs on Re-framing our dress and textiles collection on our website, where you can also explore the online Fast x Slow Fashion exhibition.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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-residence for the Science Museum Group. Meg and Sara find out why museums and Wikipedia get on like a house on fire, talking through women in Leeds, human remains in museum collections and misrepresented histories.We also discuss Bruce and Barack, wild nights of passion – oioi - and choccy butt-butts.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

Florence Nightingale! ...unfortunately wasn't available to be interviewed for this episode, but Stephanie Davies (Assistant Community Curator at Lotherton) absolutely was, and we really did luck out there. Steph tells us about the connection between the lady with the lamp and the greatest city in the world, and, naturally, we delve into pocket owls, mouldy hair and dog graveyards.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

In this uncharacteristically relevant episode, Meg and Sara talk to lovely Owen Gower from Dr. Jenner's House, off of the birthplace of vaccinations.We find out about Blossom the cow and her 20 horns, ghost stories from inside the house and the naughty vicar's wife who stole a plant from the Pope. Oh, and all about vaccinations (lancets, people!), Edward Jenner and what it's like to work at the house of one of history's good guys.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

Magna Carta! Jay Z's 12th studio album and  the medieval cornerstone of modern democracy. In this episode, we discuss both with Digital Engagement Officer Steven Franklin off of Egham Museum, Bradford Museums & Galleries and now the National Archives. Find out from someone other than Terry Jones why King John was so big and so bad, and why him needing a poo meant bad news for his Crown Jewels.We also cover Runnymede - it's a floodplain, guys! - , Salisbury Cathedral and the garlic and herb dip from Dominos. You know the one.  Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 wonderful guests! We're still on zoom and we still hate it! For this first episode of series 3, Meg and Sara chat to Anjna Chouhan off of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, who has 2 - 2! - of her own podcasts: Shakespeare Alive and Shakespeare's Pants. Anjna patiently answers our silly little questions, like: are there any of Shakespeare's possessions still kicking about? What does it feel like sending emails every day from the place where the literal Bard was born? Most importantly, who's the fittest Shakespearean actor?It's Helen Mirren.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 release our third series.This time around, we ask museum smartypants the truly important questions about topics like Shakespeare, Magna Carta, vaccinations, Florence Nightingale, museums & Wikipedia and clothing from the 1700s.We're talking snog marry avoid, we're talking poos and Crown Jewels. We're talking choccy butbuts.Subscribe to Museums n'That wherever you get your podcasts to be the first to hear series 3, coming very soon.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 was St. Nick? What did Charles Dickens think of our Leeds? What's your favourite Wet Wet Wet song? Kitty answers all of your burning festive questions (and then some).Before you panic: Danny from DPD does get a mention.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 favourite lowbrow museum based podcast?We’re saying a firm ‘see ya’ to series 2 with curator Clare Brown, who explains how animals come to be in our natural science collection, and why dealing with the histories behind some of our collections can be so complex (see also: decolonisation). Thanks a bunch to everyone except Zoom during this, our Everest series. We’ll be back soon!Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

Bog bodies. Skeletons. Mummifying Alan. Kat Baxter, Curator of Archaeology at Leeds Museums & Galleries, answers all of our (many) burning questions about human remains and the ethics of collecting and displaying them in museums. We ask why some bodies are better preserved than others, and find out the kind of reactions visitors have to different types of human remains. We also discover why bog chemistry can be compared to chutney.PLEASE NOTE: This episode contains discussions about death, burials and human remains in the context of museum collections, ethics and conservation. Please skip this episode if that isn’t for you. Leeds Museums & Galleries Human Remains Policy is publicly available on our website.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

Artist and Assistant Registrar to the stars (Leeds Museums & Galleries) Emii Alrai is our guest this week, and the content is CHARMING.Emii brings her trademark virgo energy to the pod as we find out what registrar-ing really means. Emii shares the influence for her artistic practice too, as we chat about how Middle Eastern objects come to be in western museums, and what it means for their histories once they're on display in them.Guest cameo: Danny from DPD.Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

Surprise! Our first (questionable) bonus episode.Turns out Meg and Sara are literally museum professionals too, so get to know more about your favourite museum podcast hosts and what they do every day. Find out about the good, the bad and the downright lovely sides of working with museum audiences, why museums need to change and the impact that working in social media can have on your mental health. Listen, subscribe and leave a review on Apple podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects. Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

Trains! Jelly tots! Chicken Jalfrezi! All the major food groups in one delicious museum podcast. Curator of industrial history John McGoldrick tells us all about inventions made in the great, nay, greatest, city of Leeds. Find out what Dick Whittington's got to do with railways, how to become an actual rocket scientist and what, definitively, is the best train. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects. Subscribe and leave us a review!Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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, genuinely come on the show.We talk videogame history, and explore the logistics of collecting games as a museum. We cover the fundamentals too: Crash Bandicoot or Sonic? Would you sell your turnips to Elijah Wood? Who would play you in a videogame?The answer is always Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson.Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and all the usual podcast suspects. Subscribe and leave us a review!Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 Phillips puts moths under the spotlight in this episode, and we explain the Leeds Museums & Galleries obsession with the little blighters. Swot up on cocoons, caterpillars, and crucially: who would win in a fight, the best ant, or the best bee?It's good to be back.Listen and subscribe on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and all the usual podcast suspects. Subscribe and leave us a review!Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 is yes! We're going to. You're welcome. We're sorry in advance.We'll be covering topics like human remains, moths and inventions made in the greatest city in the world. Series 2 even features some actual real life guests, like Conor from the National Videogame Museum.Subscribe to be the first to hear this extra special series of Museums n'That, complete with unwelcome house noises and internet connectivity issues. See you there.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 interview Learning Officer Carl Newbould, who works with pupils with special educational needs and disabilities to give them experiences of the world of work. In other words, Carl has the loveliest job.Discover what that actually means in practice, why Meg hates Paris and which celebrity Carl's a dead ringer for.Listen and subscribe on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and all the usual podcast suspects. Rate us and leave us a review!Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 happened.You'll also do some very good learns too - what's the deal with Henry Moore? Why is some art considered art when it looks a bit like you could have done it? What happens if you accidentally break a sculpture?Find out everything you ever really wanted to know about sculpture as Meg and Sara interview Dr. Rebecca Wade: sculpture expert, curator extraordinaire and Buffy fan.Listen and subscribe on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and all the usual podcast suspects. Subscribe and leave us a review!Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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 what Humboldt Squids have to do with Peruvian mummies, the incredible commitment of the Shinto monks and, most importantly, where on literal Earth Antarctica even is.Please be aware that this episode contains discussions about mummification and ritual suicide.Listen and subscribe on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and all the usual podcast suspects. Subscribe and leave us a review!Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

Meg and Sara interview Chris Sharp, Assistant Community Curator at Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills and Thwaite Watermill, and owner of the longest job title in history.Chris talks through his work with local community groups, and how he facilitates people experiencing the museum on their own terms. We cover gardening, mental health, dementia and alpacas in jumpers. And takeaways.This one's a lovely cuddle for your ears.Listen and subscribe on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and all the usual podcast suspects. Subscribe and leave us a review!Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

Meg and Sara interview Errin Hussey, Archivist for the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Museums and Galleries.Errin spills the beans on what archives actually are: how they're stored, how you should hold them and what happens when the thing you're archiving is actually an orange.Find out about Bruce Springsteen's archive, what happened with a packet of biscuits in 1960 and how to pronounce Pearl Jam correctly...Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

In this first episode, Meg and Sara introduce themselves before interviewing Rebecca Machin, Curator of Natural Science at Leeds Museums and Galleries.Find out why preserving a caterpillar is especially gross, how one very special gorilla came to be in our collection and most importantly of all, what it's like to shake one David Attenborough's hand. Please be aware that this episode features quite graphic discussions about taxidermy and animal anatomy. Taxidermy is the process of using animal skin to make to make a model of how the animal looked when it was alive. Museums use taxidermy for education and research, and Leeds Museums and Galleries does not kill animals for display.Taxidermy has been used as a way of preserving animals for centuries. Before television and zoos, most people only got to see wild and exotic animals by looking at taxidermy in museums. Some taxidermy was produced as hunting trophies but modern museum taxidermy is undertaken with complete respect for the animals and out of a need for education and research.Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)

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, and this podcast gets to the very heart of the things that make them tick, by asking the questions that you actually want to know.Do you want to know how to taxidermy a caterpillar? Because same. Desperate to know about Bruce Springsteen's archive? Sure mate. Need to know what a World Cultures Curator orders at a takeaway? Almost definitely not, but you're going to find out anyway.In this first series, your hosts Meg and Sara pour the tea over topics you never knew you needed to know about, by speaking to people across Leeds Museums and Galleries' 9 venues. So if that's a bit of you then subscribe and hang fire for the first series of Museums n'That, launching soon from the greatest city in the world. Support the show (http://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/podcast)