Episodes
Curator or Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, discusses a work by well known Manx artist Bryan Kneale - Ugo
Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, finds out more about the woman behind a nineteenth century portrait - Margaret Quayle
Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, tells us about a fireplace designed by the famous architect, Hugh Baillie Scott.
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
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.
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.
Archivist at the Manx Museum in Douglas Wendy Thirkettle. discovers some printed regulations from a Tromode flax spinning and sailcloth manufacturer of 1850
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
Libraries and Archive Assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, describes a photograph of old Peel - one of her favourite photographs in the collection.
Library and Archives assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, chats about a digital scan of a photograph sent to the museum from the antipodes
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.
Library and Archive Assistant at MNH, Kim Holden, talks about the plans for Hutchinson Square Internment Camp.
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!
Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, tells us about a distinctive type of pot made on the Isle of Man in prehistoric times.
Curator of Archaeology at MHJ, Alison Fox, considers why white pebbles are found so often at burial sites on the Island . . .
Curator of Archaeology at MHH, Alison Fox, tells us how are ancestors may not have been as grubby as they are oft portrayed . .
Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, talks about a simple game discovered among artefacts on the high slopes in the 1950s
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!
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
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!
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
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.
Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, looks at the taxidermy mount of a high-flying bird - the Whooper Swan.
Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, looks at the long-lived edible crab.
Curator of Natural History at Manx National Heritage, Laura McCoy, examines a herbarium of the original species of elm on the Isle of Man - namely wych elm
British and Manx Butterflies. Curator of Natural History at MNH, Laura McCoy, tells us about the butterfly and moth section of the museum's entomology collection.
Curator of Archaeology for MNH, Alison Fox talks about how science plays its part in telling stories from the past.
Curator of Archaeology for MNH, Alison Fox discusses the museum's collection of the remains of over 600 people who died hundreds or thousands of years ago, what be can be learnt and the importance of treating them with respect.
Curator of Archaeology for MNH, Alison Fox, tells us about the museum's prehistoric flint collection and the two men who are responsible for the vast majority of them.