The Museum of Bad Vibes Podcast
Artefacts in Britain's museums had purpose and significance before being put on display. Hanna Adan releases the restless spirits within to ask: should they be returned home?
It鈥檚 generally agreed that a trip to a museum is almost certainly educational, at times entertaining and often enlightening. The fortress-like buildings tend to be full of treasures and objects from all over the world, bringing the past to life in wondrous ways. But have you ever stopped to think how the objects found their way there and what they might say if they could tell their own stories?
In the Museum of Bad Vibes, Hanna Adan explores the cultural & spiritual significance an Akan Gold weight, Benin Bronze, a Chinese Ancestral Tablet and a Papua New Guinean Koi board; learns how they they got to be in some of the UK鈥檚 most celebrated museums and asks whether they could or should be returned to their countries and communities of origin.
Episodes to download
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Releasing The Bad Vibes
Tue 9 Aug 2022
The four objects are back in storage but where does The Museum of Bad Vibes go from here?
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The Storyteller With No Audience
Tue 2 Aug 2022
A Koi Board from Papua New Guinea awakes to find itself in the Museum of Bad Vibes
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Looking Back to See Ahead
Tue 26 Jul 2022
An Akan gold weight awakes to find itself in the Museum of Bad Vibes
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Sisters Beyond the Grave
Tue 19 Jul 2022
A Chinese ancestral tablet awakes to find itself in The Museum of Bad Vibes
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The Bird of Prophecy鈥檚 Final Song
Tue 12 Jul 2022
A Benin Bronze awakes to find itself in The Museum of Bad Vibes
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Welcome to The Museum of Bad Vibes
Thu 7 Jul 2022
Treasured artefacts inside Britain鈥檚 celebrated museums speak for the first time.