Over the last three years, thousands of people have worked with Derby Museums to co-produce ‘Objects of Love, Hope and Fear: A World Collection’. People on the streets of Derby, co-production volunteers and new friends across the globe have cleaned, photographed, researched, interpreted and displayed this important collection of objects.

However, a gallery like this can never be considered finished and interpreting these objects makes us have honest, open and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about how these objects came to be in the museum’s collection, how they have been labelled and how they represent Derby today.

In this the first of two conversation between curators and artists, Alison Solomon discusses her relationship with two particular objects: an intricate wooden toy theatre depicting a Shakespearean scene and an ordinary throwaway tin.

Recorded at Derby Museum and Art Gallery with Alison Solomon and Laura Phillips.