Secrets of the Museum
Creature Feature
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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What happens in the mysterious, not-so-dusty behind-the-scenes of natural history museums? Today we're talking about how museum collections extend far beyond what's visible to the public, and how they are a repository of massive amounts of knowledge for amazing (and weird) research. I'm joined today by the assistant director of the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge University and author of the new book Nature's Memory: Behind the scenes of the world's natural history museums, Jack Ashby.
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| 0:50.8 | I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, we are talking |
| 0:55.6 | about the weirdest, most interesting stories that happen behind the scenes at museums. Natural |
| 1:03.1 | History museums are an incredible resource to be able to go and visit and see some of the most |
| 1:09.8 | amazing aspects of evolutionary biology, often brought |
| 1:13.8 | right to your city, but there's so much that goes on that you may not even know about. So |
| 1:19.9 | today I am being joined by the assistant director of the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge |
| 1:25.0 | University and the author of the new book, Nature's Memory, |
| 1:28.6 | behind the scenes of the world's Natural History Museum. Jack Ashby, welcome. |
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