Museum 100

Museum 100

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Museum 100 episodes

  • MUSEUM 100 07 AUGUST 2023

    Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Kate King, discusses "rapid response" collecting for the museum, looking at a dress worn by the drag queen Vida La Fierce at the Island's first ever Isle of Pride Festival

    4 min
  • MUSEUM 100 04 AUGUST 2023

    Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, tells us about an epic 1851 painting by English painter John Martin - and why it's in the Manx national collection.

    4 min
  • MUSEUM 100 02 AUGUST 2023

    Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, describes one of her favourite objects in the national collection - a wooden horse from the Silverdale water-powered carousel.

    3 min
  • MUSEUM 100 28 JULY 2023

    Archivist at the Manx Museum in Douglas Wendy Thirkettle. discovers some printed regulations from a Tromode flax spinning and sailcloth manufacturer of 1850

    5 min
  • MUSEUM 100 24 JULY 2023

    Archivist at the Museum Library in Douglas, Wendy Thirkettle, looks at some architectural plans for a planned museum for Douglas from the early 20th century

    5 min
  • MUSEUM 100 21 JULY 2023

    Libraries and Archive Assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, describes a photograph of old Peel - one of her favourite photographs in the collection.

    3 min
  • MUSEUM 100 19 JULY 2023

    Library and Archives assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, chats about a digital scan of a photograph sent to the museum from the antipodes

    4 min

About Museum 100

From the publisher's feed

Celebrating 100 Years of the Manx Museum through audio from the past.