My guest is Michael McHugh, who works for Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums.

Mike has fascinating things to say about how we can challenge traditional approaches to museum exhibitions, as well as loads of great insights into why fear of failure can make it difficult to start projects.

We talk about (among other things): melting down armaments in museums to turn them into records; how hypnosis can go wrong; Ken Campbell and making things heroic; and the time Mike got a medium to do psychic readings of museum objects...(we couldn't remember the word for this when we were speaking, but I think is called Psychometry).

Check out Mike's article on his work at the Shipley Museum here: "Beyond The Museum: Chaos Magic, Local History & Occult Data Collection".

And you can watch the "Beyond the Museum" event on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEwQ5WOqio

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