#MuseumPassion
New programmes and archive for #MuseumPassion, a week-long celebration of museums and galleries running 8-16 October 2020. On 15 October BBC Arts dedicates a full day to bringing the UK's fantastic museums to a global online audience.
Curator Battle with York Museum
Dan and Sasha are here with guests to discuss the results of #BestPartyObject.
Who'd Be A Museum Director Today?
Our panel debate the many challenges facing museum curators in the 2020s.
Lachlan Goudie on The Monarch of the Glen—Inside Museums, Series 1, Scottish National Gallery
Exploring the importance of nature in art at the Scottish National Gallery.
Cerys Matthews and The Vulcan's reconstruction at St Fagans—Inside Museums, Series 1, St Fagans National Museum of History
Cerys Matthews explores St Fagans Museum and the pub being rebuilt on site, brick by brick
'On average, a homeless person dies every 19 hours in the UK’
The Museum of Homelessness aims to change the way people think about homelessness
Susanna Drury's Paintings of the Giant's Causeway—Inside Museums, Series 1, Ulster Museum
Emma Dabiri explores paintings by Susanna Drury displayed in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.
Lachlan Goudie shares his love of Gauguin's Vision After the Sermon—Inside Museums, Series 1, Scottish National Gallery
Lachlan Goudie explores Paul Gauguin's painting in the Scottish National Gallery.
The Grand Tour—Inside Museums, Series 1, Ulster Museum
Tourism in its very earliest form is explored in the Ulster Museum.
St Fagans National Museum of History—Inside Museums, Series 1
Cerys Matthews is given exclusive access to St Fagans National Museum of History.
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Ulster Museum—Inside Museums, Series 1
Emma Dabiri takes us around the world through artworks at Ulster Museum.
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Scottish National Gallery—Inside Museums, Series 1
Lachlan Goudie relates paintings at the Scottish National Gallery to our lives today.
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Artemisia Gentileschi—Inside Museums, Series 1
A special access tour of the Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at London's National Gallery
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Celebrating Ulster Museum—The Culture Cafe
Marie-Louise Muir celebrates #MuseumPassion week with Belfast's Ulster Museum.
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Arvo Party's Ulster Museum track
Musician Herb Magee has written a piece based on his fond memories of the Ulster Museum.
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Episode 4—Inside Culture, Series 1
At the British Museum, Mary examines what the future holds for museums post-lockdown.
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Grayson Perry—Jo Whiley
Jo will chat to artist Grayson Perry about the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020.
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Museum of the Year recipients. Arts minister Caroline Dinenage on the Cultural Recovery Fund results—Front Row
As the first of the government grants are awarded we ask if it is going to be enough.
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Hugh Laurie on new drama Roadkill, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Arts degrees and Covid—Front Row
Hugh Laurie on new drama Roadkill, Aberdeen Art Gallery, arts degrees during Covid.
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Jodi Picoult, Science Museum, winners and losers of the Cultural Recovery Fund—Front Row
Jodi Picoult on her novel The Book of Two Ways.
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Anais Mitchell on creating her musical, Hadestown—Front Row
Anais Mitchell on Hadestown; Belfast International Arts Festival; Chris Killip remembered.
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New Thinking about Museums—Free Thinking
VR Vikings, military museums to bakelite - new research into a range of collections.
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The Frieze BBC Radio 3 Debate Museums in the 21st Century—Free Thinking
Gallery directors from Russia, USA and Singapore compare notes, hosted by Anne McElvoy.
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Thursday - Petroc's classical picks—Breakfast
Petroc Trelawny presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show, featuring listener requests.
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12/10/2020—The One Show
Alex Jones and Michael Ball chat to movie star Kevin Bacon about his latest film.
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