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In the second week of Neil MacGregor's new series, he visits museums striving to bring modern relevance to their powerful histories rooted in the 18th and 19th century. Show more
57 minutes
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In the final week of Neil's series he visits national museums in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and tries to draw conclusions about our museums, and the people who run them. Show more
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Neil travels to the Suffolk town of Stowmarket to visit what was the Museum of East Anglian Life but will soon be The Food Museum, complete with its own reconstructed water mill. Show more
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Neil begins the second week of his series visiting Museums up and down the country in Derby, at the heart of the industrial Midlands and the newly rebranded Museum of Making. Show more
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With Bristol at the centre of debate about colonial history and statues that recall it, Neil discovers that it isn't the image of a Slave Trader that the museum puts centre stage. Show more
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In Birmingham, Neil is shown an object describing the sound of the city in the last quarter of the 20th century, in the form of a guitar belonging to local Reggae band Steel Pulse. Show more
57 minutes
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Responses to demographic change in cities from Bristol to Leicester is the subject of the third week of Neil MacGregor's series celebrating the role of Museums all over Britain. Show more
57 minutes
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Neil MacGregor travels the length and breadth of the country to find out how Britain's museums are using their collections to reflect the ambitions of local communities. Show more
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Neil MacGregor travels to Penrhyn Castle, a glorious faux Norman building with an equally glorious collection of art, but with a dark history now being told. Show more
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Neil MacGregor travels the length and breadth of the country to find out how Britain's museums use their collections to reflect the identity and ambitions of local communities. Show more
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Neil visits The Tower Museum in Derry/Londonderry, where a locally made shirt is the object that counters the image of a city often defined by division and bloodshed. Show more
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Neil is in the small village of Porthcurno in Cornwall, discovering how the museum celebrates the modern phenomenon of mass communication while also serving the local community. Show more
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Neil reaches the most northern museum on his travels, the Museum of Tasglann nan Eilean, Stornoway, where the story of land clearance and riot matters more than Lewis chessmen. Show more
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In Liverpool Neil is invited through the shop door of a preserved Kosher Butcher's shop which describes the city's history of refugee sanctuary and settlement. Show more
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Neil journey's to Bishop Auckland in England's industrial north east where 'The Auckland Project' engages local pride through its collection of paintings by Spanish Masters. Show more
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Neil follows the road signs to Wakefield, where the new Hepworth Gallery now stands amidst old spinning mills and industrial decay, inspiring a very different local pride. Show more
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Neil travels to Brighton, a city that for two centuries has been famously flamboyant, a quality not lost in the museum and art gallery's collection of contemporary clothing. Show more
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Leicester Museum and Art Gallery choose fragments of a German Expressionist Anti-war painting to illustrate their intention to uphold the city's reputation as a city of sanctuary. Show more
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Neil begins a week visiting national museums in Edinburgh, where a Saltire and King's colours from the battle of Culloden describe the complexity of Scottish identity. Show more
In Leeds, Neil discovers how the museum is engaging with its youngest visitors by taking objects and exhibits out to schools, rather than relying on the 'school visit'. Show more
