Random Museums Podcasts

Afro Historyscapes is a ten-episode podcast series that gives a fresh perspective on African history. We tell the story of African Histories through objects at the Horniman Museum and Gardens in South London.

The podcast has been developed alongside our Community Action Research project and shares the research of our curators, project team and Community Action Researchers.

The overarching theme of the series is movement with three episodes each featuring Trade, Religion and Technology. We also feature a special episode hosted by Sherry Davis, a Community Researcher, musician and filmmaker.

We tell the sorts of stories about the objects in our collections that answer questions you didn’t know who to ask. At 10-15 minutes each they are perfect to enjoy over a cup of your favourite hot drink.

The series is

Produced by: JC Niala & Tom Fearon

Co-producer: Sian Brett

Music: Edmund Jolliffe

JC Niala gratefully acknowledges the support provided by the Joint BME Events and Activities scheme administered by the Social History Society in partnership with Economic History Society, History UK, History of Education Society (UK), History Workshop Journal, Royal Historical Society, Society for the Study of Labour History and Women’s History Network.

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Categories: Arts, History

Tags: african collections, African History, horniman, museum, museums, south London

Historian and journalist Tony Perrottet unearths sexual stories from throughout the ages. The series is modeled on the “secret cabinets” in Victorian museums, where medieval chastity belts, Renaissance pornography and perverse novels by the Marquis de Sade were hidden. Each episode will answer a burning question: How did Napoleon’s penis end up in suburban New Jersey? Are champagne glasses modeled on Marie-Antoinette’s breasts? How did you behave at one of Caligula’s orgies? And what were Casanova’s best pick-up lines?

Categories: Arts, History

Tags: Archaeology, Erotica, History, museums, pornography, sex, Sexual

Sisters Bianca (MA in art history) and Gianna (BFA in studio art) Martucci-Fink host conversations that connect the world of art history to our present popular culture. With hot topics, and even hotter guests, they’ll tell you why and how visual culture continues to inform our daily lives–while keeping you up to date on the latest global art and pop news.

New episodes are out twice a month. Join them every first and third Tuesday for an art-pop talk!

Categories: Arts, Leisure, News, Society & Culture, TV & Film

Tags: art, art history, Arts, Entertainment, museums, POP, pop culture, Pop News, Visual Culture

Every object in the Ashmolean has passed from hand to hand to reach the Museum. In a new podcast, we uncover the invisible fingerprints left behind by makers, looters, archaeologists, soldiers, rulers, curators, and many more. These stories of touch reveal the ways in which the forces of conflict and colonialism have shaped Britain’s oldest Museum. Join the Ashmolean’s curators alongside artists, experts, and community members. Fingerprints will be released on the Ashmolean’s website, on Spotify, Apple, and wherever you get your podcasts, weekly from 21 January 2022 until 25 February 2022. Guests include Bénédicte Savoy, co-author of the Report on African Cultural Heritage, commissioned by Emmanuel Macron; Professor Dan Hicks, of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum; and Simukai Chigudu, one of the founding members of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign.

Categories: Arts, History, Society & Culture

Tags: Archaeology, art, art history, Ashmolean, Ashmolean Museum, Benin, Benin Bronzes, British Museum, colonialism, heritage, History, Museum Studies, museums, oxford, Oxford University, Pitt Rivers Museum, restitution, University of Oxford

Freight, Passenger, Trolleys, Light Rail, Museums, as long as it is rail/train related, we talk about it!

Categories: Leisure

Tags: Amtrak, freight rail, hobbies, museums, passenger rail, railfan, railroad, railroads, steam, trains

Want to work in the arts, but don’t know what you might do? Think you need to know someone to get in? Phoebe and Ankur work at Sadler’s Wells, a leading dance organisation working to change the perceptions and realities of working in the creative industries. Listen to their conversations with people under 40 who are killing it in the worlds of dance, theatre, museums and more to hear about the variety of roles that exist and how you could find your way in.

Arts Work is brought to you by Sadler’s Wells in association with Barclays Dance Pass.

@Sadlers_wells

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Categories: Arts, Business

Tags: advice, Arts, careers, creative, creative industries, dance, Education, jobs, marketing, mentoring, museums, music, theatre

On View is a series that explores how museums are evolving to keep pace with society, how they can become welcoming to a wider public, and how technology offers new opportunities to reach audiences. Hosted by Chris Barr, Knight Foundation’s Director of Arts + Technology Innovation.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture, Technology

Tags: art, Innovation, museums, Technology

We can have the future we want—but we have to work for it. Soonish brings you stories and conversations showing how the choices we make together forge the technological world of tomorrow. From MIT-trained technology journalist Wade Roush. Learn more at soonishpodcast.org. We’re a proud member of the Hub & Spoke audio collective! See hubspokeaudio.org.

Categories: Science, Society & Culture, Technology

Tags: ai, architecture, artificial intelligence, energy, Food, future, futurism, manufacturing, monorails, Movies, museums, music, NASA, neuroscience, productivity, science-fiction, social media, soonish, Space, space exploration, Technology, transportation, virtual reality

Artists, activists, and scholars deliver a state of the nation on nations, interrogating ideas of nationhood, borders, power, and dissent. Produced in concert with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto’s exhibition, Nations by Artists.

Categories: Arts

Tags: activism, art activism, Art Galleries, art museum, contemporary art, museums, public art

This is a show about audio description and accessible entertainment, a process where the visual elements of a movie, television show, video, stage production or museum tour are described for the benefit of those who are blind or have a visual impairment. It is our mission to inform those who would benefit from audio description, what is available and how to access it through demonstrations, interviews and bringing attention to other online resources.

Categories: Arts, Leisure

Tags: amazonprimevideo, AudioDescription, Disney, hulu, museums, netflix, streaming, televisonmovies, videodescription

The Unusual History of Every Thing is a podcast for lovers of the weird history of common things in our world. Join cultural object preservationists Melanie Dellas and Karen Lacy as they uncover the unusual histories of every thing around us. New episodes every Tuesday!

Categories: Education, History

Tags: ancientegypt, ancientgreece, AncientHistory, ancientrome, anthropology, Archaeology, artifacts, Books, culturalobjects, Culture, Curiosities, History, historypodcasts, mummies, museums, oddities, Podcasts, strangehistory, weirdhistory

Can a driven individual shatter academic stereo-types through a passion for education? How does a love of science or engineering help you overcome educational difficulties, or even poverty? Writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah talks with acclaimed figures in the areas of science, technology and engineering from the Afro-Caribbean community about their experiences within their particular fields. They discuss their work, inspiration and the obstacles of pursuing careers in subjects that have been traditionally occupied by white men. Through Benjamin Zephaniah we get an insight into their aspirations, how they managed to succeed and the modern and diverse methods they use to encourage the youth to engage with the sciences.

Categories: Education

Tags: black, CADET, craters, edinburgh, invention, jamaica, museums, newcastle, Observatory, Racism, RAF, rap, Royal institution, science, Space, stereo-type, telecommunications, telescope

The Modern Art Notes Podcast is a weekly, hour-long interview program featuring artists, historians, authors, curators and conservators. Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee called The MAN Podcast “one of the great archives of the art of our time.” When the US chapter of the International Association of Art Critics gave host Tyler Green one of its inaugural awards for criticism in 2014, it included a special citation for The MAN Podcast.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: art, artist, History, museums, painting, photography, sculpture, Studio, tylergreen, visualart, weekly

A look at our world through the culture and art that define it

Categories: Arts

Tags: art, Books, Broadway, Classical, cooking, culinaryarts, fiction, film, Food, gardening, Literature, Movies, museum, museums, music, opera, play, show, symphony, television, tv, visualart

‘Intersections: The Art Basel Podcast’, presented by UBS, brings together leading artists, architects, gallerists, designers, musicians, and collectors to dive deep into their passion for art. Intersections is hosted by Marc Spiegler, who covered the art world for fifteen years as a journalist before becoming global director of Art Basel. New episodes are released every two weeks.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: "fine arts", Anny Shaw, architects, art, Art Basel, artists, basel, collecting, Collectors, Galleries, Larry Ossei-Mensah, Marc Spiegler, museums, music, musicians, Stephanie Bailey, Switzerland

I believe that museums are one of the best ways to discover a place, whether it’s your first time visiting or you’ve lived there your whole life. Join me on this adventure as I get to know the world….one museum as a time. I’m your host, Hannah Hethmon. In each episode, I visit a different museum to discover its stories, discuss challenges and triumphs with fascinating museum professionals (and volunteers), and get to places through their museums. Season 1 is all about museums in Iceland. Season 2 is all about museums in the state of Maryland. NOTE from the creator: This show is no longer active. I hope you enjoy all the past episodes. I produce lots of other museum (and museum-adjacent) podcasts. You can find them at BetterLemonAudio.com. Also check out We the Museum, my podcast for museum workers. Interested in starting a podcast at your organization? Find out more about my editing and production services at BetterLemonAudio.com.

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: Culture, Europe, iceland, interviews, maryland, museums, Nordic, scandinavia

A podcast series about the LGBTQ museum and gallery workers that are bringing queer stories to life in cultural spaces.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: bisexual, Culture, gallery, gay, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, museum, museums, queer, queering, transgender