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Museum 100

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

Museum 100

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MUSEUM 100 29 NOVEMBER 2023

Assistant Curator at MNH, Anna Murphy, talks about a watercolour painting of the House of Industry in Douglas and the story behind house.

MUSEUM 100 24 NOVEMBER 2023

Assistant Curator at MHH, Hannah Murphy digs into the story of the Manx spade . .

MUSEUM 100 21 NOVEMBER 2023

Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, with the history of the White Tailed Eagle on the Isle of Man

MUSEUM 100 17 NOVEMBER 2023

Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, tells us about the Island's native sheep - the Loaghtan.

MUSEUM 100 13 NOVEMBER 2023

Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, tells us about the fall and hoped for rise of what used to be one of the Island's most abundant farmland birds.

MUSEUM 100 06 NOVEMBER 2023

Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, tells us about one of the most iconic objects in the collection - the Giant Deer skeleton.

MUSEUM 100 30 OCTOBER 2023

Curator of Natural History for MNH, Laura McCoy, tells us about the largest in the collection .. .the skeleton of a Sei whale.

MUSEUM 100 27 OCTOBER 2023

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

MUSEUM 100 23 OCTOBER 2023

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.

MUSEUM 100 20 OCTOBER 2023

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

MUSEUM 100 16 OCTOBER 2023

Digital Collections Assistant with MNH, Katie Clugston, 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

MUSEUM 100 13 OCTOBER 2023

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

MUSEUM 100 09 OCTOBER 2023

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 . . . !

MUSEUM 100 06 OCTOBER 2023

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.

MUSEUM 100 02 OCTOBER 2023

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

MUSEUM 100 29 SEPTEMBER 2023

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

MUSEUM 100 25 SEPTEMBER 2023

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

MUSEUM 100 21 SEPTEMBER 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, looks at a brass lamp cover and tells the story of the the sinking of the SS Romeo - sunk in the Irish Sea. . .

MUSEUM 100 18 SEPTEMBER 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, tells us about an incredible Bronze Age treasure, discovered in a grave found just outside Kirk Michael . .. .

MUSEUM 100 15 SEPTEMBER 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, considers the importance of the Island's crosses and the legacy of preservation work done a hundred years ago . .

MUSEUM 100 11 SEPTEMBER 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MHK, Alison Fox, describes an enormous slab of carved red sandstone believed to be the coffin lid of possibly one of the great Norse kings . ..

MUSEUM 100 08 SEPTEMBER 2023

Curator of Art and Social History, Katie King, discusses a reel to reel paper recorder which was once used by the Folk Life Survey recorders - and contrary to popular belief, not still used by Manx Radio

MUSEUM 100 04 SEPTEMBER 2023

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, tells the story behind some relics relating to one of the Isle of Man's most curious characters; Arthur Caley, the Manx Giant.

MUSEUM 100 01 SEPTEMBER

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, with a record player which once belonged to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees - the most famous musical stars yet produced by the IOM

MUSEUM 100 28 AUGUST 2023

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, looks at a couple of exhibits from the long-gone amusement centre which once sat on Onchan Head - White City.

MUSEUM 100 25 AUGUST 2023

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, describes an unusual decorative cabinet known as a Spar Box.

MUSEUM 100 22 AUGUST 2023

Curator of Art and Social History at MHH, Katie King, tells us about a grand dolls house made in the Knockaloe Internee camp during the first war.

MUSEUM 100 18 AUGUST 2023

Curator or Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, discusses a work by well known Manx artist Bryan Kneale - Ugo

MUSEUM 100 14 AUGUST 2023

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, finds out more about the woman behind a nineteenth century portrait - Margaret Quayle

MUSEUM 100 11 AUGUST 2023

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, tells us about a fireplace designed by the famous architect, Hugh Baillie Scott.

MUSEUM 100 07 AUGUST 2023

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

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.

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.

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

MUSEUM 100 24 JULY 2023

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

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.

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

MUSEUM 100 07 JULY 2023

Library and Archive Assistant at MNH, Kim Holden, looks at a tourist map of the Isle of Man and Street map of Douglas from 1899.

MUSEUM 100 04 JULY 2023

Library and Archive Assistant at MNH, Kim Holden, talks about the plans for Hutchinson Square Internment Camp.

MUSEUM 100 29 JUNE 2023

MNH Librarian Suzi Heslan looks into the Almanac of the 1910 Ramsey Courier Almanac to remember the Ellan Vannin tragedy

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, with the story of what may be the Island's oldest candle!

MUSEUM 100 19 JUNE 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, tells us about a distinctive type of pot made on the Isle of Man in prehistoric times.

MUSEUM 100 16 JUNE 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MHJ, Alison Fox, considers why white pebbles are found so often at burial sites on the Island . . .

MUSEUM 100 12 JUNE 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MHH, Alison Fox, tells us how are ancestors may not have been as grubby as they are oft portrayed . .

MUSEUM 100 09 JUNE 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, talks about a simple game discovered among artefacts on the high slopes in the 1950s

MUSEUM 100 05 JUNE 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, discusses a 6,000 year old polished stone axe head, found in what is now Willaston - but made from stone quarried in the Italian Alps!

MUSEUM 100 02 JUNE 2023

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, tells us the story behind some old faded and broken crockery from a grand sailing ship which foundered off the Island's coast in 1834

MUSEUM 100 26 MAY 2023

Curator of archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, tells us about how a hoard of ancient gold coins was found in the 1840s - and how the mystery remains as to how they got there!

MUSEUM 100 MAY 22 2023

Library and Archives Conservator, Emma La Cornu, looks at an old poster from mid nineteenth century and describes what work was needed to conserve it

MUSEUM 100 19 MAY 2023

Library and Archives Conservator, Emma La Cornu, tells us about a glass display bottle of lavender salts from an old Douglas chemist shop from the mid 1800s - and her work to conserve the label.

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