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Museum Secrets: Hidden Stories from the Ashmolean

Museum Secrets: Hidden Stories from the Ashmolean

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About the Book

In December 2020, spirits were low. The first tentative visitors had only just made it back through the doors of the Ashmolean after months of isolation, only for another lockdown to come crashing into view. The galleries went dark for a second time in a year. There's something uncanny about standing in the Museum when it's empty of visitors. You can sense a million human stories all around you, clamouring to be told to… no-one. So, we had to change tack. If we couldn't get people into the building, we could get the stories out. I started calling around curators, asking for their most uplifting tales in the collections. From bedrooms and garden sheds and kitchen tables, the Ashmolean team started recording themselves, sharing stories of joy and resilience to help keep us all going through the dark winter months of quarantine. The result was a podcast, Museum Secrets, which you can find on the Ashmolean's website. This book contains the highlights. These are stories you won't find on the labels. These are stories of the human experiences hidden in the Museum's cases and frames. They are stories that cheered us up when we needed it most, and I hope will continue to do so. 

Table of Contents:
1 The Camel Who Escaped The Nazis Lucie Dawkins 6 2 A Sitting Duck Paul Collins 11 3 Requiem for a Pug Alison Pollard 15 4 Indecent Sculptures for Decent Museums Jim Harris 19 5 The Ancient Art of Manscaping Lucie Dawkins 24 6 Forms and Music Lena Fritsch 31 7 Rising Above the Clouds Clare Pollard 36 8 A Miniature Masterpiece Mallica Kumbera Landrus 42 9 The Invention of Empathy Lucie Dawkins 48 10 Broken and Beautiful Clare Pollard 52 11 Upcycling and Glad Rags Francesca Leoni 55 12 Beneath the Blue Tea Ghigo 60 13 Windmills and Wagers Matthew Winterbottom 65 14 More Tea Vicar Jim Harris 70 15 Toad Vaccines Matthew Winterbottom 74 16 Rules for Life Lucie Dawkins 78 17 The Masked Matriarch Catherine Whistler 82 18 Ancient Egyptian Family Feud Lucie Dawkins 86 19 The Ghost Painter Shelagh Vainker 90


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781910807569
  • Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
  • Publisher Imprint: Ashmolean Museum
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Weight: 417 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1910807567
  • Publisher Date: 03 Nov 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Hidden Stories from the Ashmolean
  • Width: 152 mm


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