Museum 100

Library and Archives Assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, looks at the photographs of GB Cowin - and tries to work out why she hates them so much!

Library and Archives Assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, tells us about a beautiful plan from 1799 used in a land dispute involving the Kentraugh Estate.

Digital Collections Assistant with MNH, Katie Clugston, gives us the story of the life and films of Joseph Royston

Digital Collections Assistant with MNH, Katie Clugstone, describes some of the more personal affects which were salvaged from the wreck of HMS Racehorse which sank over 200 years ago off the coast of Langness

Collections Information Manager for MNH, Jude Dicken, gives us a taste of the MNH Sound Archives with a recording of a herring fisherman recalling his work on the boats in the early 1900s

Library and Archives Conservator at MNH, Emma Le Cornu, describes an ink and watercolour wash drawing done by Phillip Moore Callow-Kermode - and the work needed for it to go on display. A little spit and polish really can do wonders . . . !

Emma Le Cornu, the Library and Archives Conservator at MHH tells us about a large 1940s poster advertising the Isle of Man and the work she has had to carry out to conserve it. 

Curator of Archaeology at MNH. Alison Fox talks tells us the story of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby and a recently discovered artefact which may be associated with him

Alison Fox, Curator of Archaeology at MNH talks about the stories behind old suggane stones once used to tie down thatched roofs on many buildings 

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, discusses the significance of one of the smallest artefacts in the National collection - a small broken piece of baked clay