Welcome to the Northern mythology podcast, I'm Daniel Farring, owner of the Coming at Horns of Odin, And today I'm joined by Richard Wakeman.

Richard, thank you for joining me. We've been trying to plan this one for, but I mean,

I've been trying to plan this one for a while I've been hunting you down and hounding you for a couple of years now.

Yeah, thanks for that. We finally got here. Yeah, I can't, how many years has it been?

I think it was, you said the last time you did this kind of thing was about three years ago, and that was when I was like, oh, if he's doing a podcast, I want him to come on my podcast.

Yeah, you brought me out of retirement. he's doing a podcast, I want him to come on my podcast.

Yeah, you brought me out of retirement.

Yeah, my name is Richard Waikman.

I'm an assistant collection manager

for the Department of Britain, European History for the British Museum.

Do you want me to tell you a bit about what that is?

Yeah, absolutely.

Because there are sometimes I ask myself that's a very same question, what the hell do I do?

But I've been at British Museum for 20 years and I've been working in museums, been working in museums for about 26, 27 years.

I started working in museums when I was about 15 on work experience, but that's a whole different story. But basically what I do and I am one of about

between 20 to 40 assistant collection managers in a museum. They go from department department.

So Egyptian department's got some,

Prince George's got some,

we've all got various departments that were assigned to.

But what do we do? If you go to a museum and there's an object on display,

that's a minion like me, we'll put that object on display.

If you're wondering like, oh, that looks nice and that's mount. That's a minion like me that will make a mount for it or we'll put pin in it.

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