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 - @s...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 to...

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...

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://w...

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 Hil...

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 als...

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. ...