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 g

Conservators are dorks

Apr 27th, 2023 42m 46s

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 bu

A benign environmental dictator

Apr 20th, 2023 42m 20s

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 Sustainabil

The Tower of London is a twice in a lifetime experience

Apr 13th, 2023 44m 15s

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

We have more than just butt plugs

Apr 6th, 2023 39m 12s

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

We sure need plants

Mar 30th, 2023 45m 42s

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 Dis

The Brontës are the Kardashians

Mar 23rd, 2023 49m 9s

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

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Series 6 trailer

Mar 9th, 2023 43s

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, w

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Stuffed with a partridge – AHA!

Dec 22nd, 2022 50m 46s

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 Templ

It can't just be at the International Slavery Museum

Aug 23rd, 2022 53m 36s

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

You are flippin' in the Queer Britain museum

Aug 16th, 2022 48m 49s

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 impor

I'd go between Paul and George

Aug 9th, 2022 48m 14s

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 jus

The very important documentary 'The Devil Wears Prada'

Aug 2nd, 2022 49m 56s

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' fo

We don't do bloodletting, no

Jul 26th, 2022 39m 59s

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

I'm not Norman, I'm Joe

Jul 19th, 2022 52m 41s

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 po

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Series 5 trailer

Jul 13th, 2022 48s

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

You'd struggle to get better than Stephenson's Rocket

Jan 4th, 2022 48m 1s

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

I like my exotic fruits

Dec 28th, 2021 46m 56s

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

It's just Titanic isn't it

Dec 21st, 2021 43m 34s

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 unto

I don't know if I've mentioned, but I'm vegan

Dec 14th, 2021 40m 30s

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 exce

Who the flip is David Hopes?

Dec 7th, 2021 46m 46s

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 u

Hip hop doesn't ask for permission

Nov 30th, 2021 43m 24s

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

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Series 4 trailer

Nov 24th, 2021 47s

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 wond

You do whatever you want my darlin'

Jun 25th, 2021 49m 1s

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 fas

Choccy butt-butts

Jun 18th, 2021 48m 58s

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