Collection Stories 3: A library of life - Museum databases, digitisation and archives

03/09/2020 29 min
Collection Stories 3: A library of life - Museum databases, digitisation and archives

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Episode Synopsis

How do you find what you need in a collection of over four million objects? This week’s podcast episode is all about record keeping at the Museum. We’ll talk with Keith about maintaining the collections database. We’ll also visit Dr Matt Shaw who takes care of our spiders, Eleanor Adams who is working to photograph every object in the Humanities collection, and Lea Gardam who cares for the Museum Archives.