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The Unknown Museum by Maherush [OH837]
Maherush Khan (MK): Hello, my name is Maherush, I’m spending a day at the M Shed museum. So does this museum have everything it needs, or is it missing something? Just kind of trying to see how relevant history is, even today, and how similar history is. In the public part of the museum I found very interesting things, I saw a sign that says, ‘Have you ever stopped buying something in support of a cause?’ and I found these things in a jar, I assume it's from something scientific. I found about the trades, Britain did trade with India, I assume spices. Oh – and also I found a T-shirt saying, ‘Not guilty,’ so I assume it’s from a protest. And obviously in Bristol we’ve been having a lot of protests as well. There’s a section where you had to vote, some people were what they’d like to change, and there was one saying, ‘I think Bristol is absolutely perfect.’ But there are things wrong with – well not with Bristol, but people here, like some people and their mindset. I’ve met a few people who are from higher class, have a really narrow mind view about the lower class, because a lot of people who do make decisions about schools and education they are – they went to private schools.
Lee Hutchinson (M Shed curator) (LH): So, M Shed opened in 2011, since then this has been the store for the M Shed collection, and this store gets used quite a lot for things coming out of the display.
Q: What did you think of the storeroom?
MK: Personally I was just amazed by the size of it, by the size of everything.
LH: These are in here because they’re large objects, to go in the large objects store, and they are jawbones from a whale, from a right whale, in fact, [...] because apparently that was the name given to the "right" whales for fishing.
MK: There was nothing to really distract you, so the flooring wasn’t glamorous, it was all about that object and you could almost imagine it being used by people. And it had a different smell, different.
Unknown: It’s like – it was, it’s like when you get clothes from India, and you open the suitcase.
MK: Yeah [laughs].
Unknown: You’ve got that waft of India haven’t you, and a waft of history.
MK: Yeah.
[Singing]
Lee Hutchinson (M Shed curator) (LH): So, M Shed opened in 2011, since then this has been the store for the M Shed collection, and this store gets used quite a lot for things coming out of the display.
Q: What did you think of the storeroom?
MK: Personally I was just amazed by the size of it, by the size of everything.
LH: These are in here because they’re large objects, to go in the large objects store, and they are jawbones from a whale, from a right whale, in fact, [...] because apparently that was the name given to the "right" whales for fishing.
MK: There was nothing to really distract you, so the flooring wasn’t glamorous, it was all about that object and you could almost imagine it being used by people. And it had a different smell, different.
Unknown: It’s like – it was, it’s like when you get clothes from India, and you open the suitcase.
MK: Yeah [laughs].
Unknown: You’ve got that waft of India haven’t you, and a waft of history.
MK: Yeah.
[Singing]