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slash UK slash AI for people. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

Every year, millions of people flock to museums, eager to learn about the past and be inspired by the artefacts on display.

But how old is the concept of the museum? How exactly has

the definition shifted over time? And what controversies have plagued museums in recent years?

In today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, Dr Caroline McCaffrey Howeth talks to John

Borkham about the history of these remarkable institutions, covering everything from Renaissance Cabinets of Curiosities to the triumphant great exhibition of 1851.

So Caroline, firstly, warm welcome to the History Extra podcast today.

Great. Thanks so much for having me.

Now, we've got a lot of questions to get through, some submitted by listeners, others based on popular search engine queries. But we'll start with this one here from Max on Instagram, which is simply what constitutes a museum?

Oh, I think that's a great question to start with. Well, for many years, I think we've considered museums as spaces,

buildings, institutions that have very carefully selected or gathered a range of objects that might

be connected through material or categorized through their materials, but also through

chronology, through geography, particular kind of themes.

But I think for me, the key thing when we think about a museum is how and when was it

built, organised, constructed museums themselves are so often products at the time and the space

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