Museum Explorations Podcasts and Videos

If Spotify podcasts is currently experiencing problems and not displaying below,
use this linkLink opens in a new window instead.

Herbert Art Gallery and Museum

A tour of the museum, showing just how big, diverse, and fascinating it is. Including Dippy the full-size diplodocus, a brilliant immersive local history gallery, Lady Godiva, WW2 and the peace and reconciliation process, and some great art.

During the filming I met local history guide Spooky Joe, and she gave an interview about what she does and a tour of medieval vaults below the museum that I never knew even existed.

Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery

A tour of the three floors of this wide-ranging collection. On the ground floor we start with Victorian Portsmouth resident Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. The movie posters and memorabilia are especially well presented. Then it's up to the first floor for local history. The temporary exhibition (until end of October 2025) "Unfurling Portsmouth's Suffrage Banners" by Sara Houghton of Portsmouth Uni is great, and includes a very engaging animated film (find out more hereLink opens in a new window and watch the films). There's some art, and then up to the top floor for more art, local history and sport. Finally, back to the ground floor and the 1980s, complete with a nightclub and disco dancing lights.

We recently created a VR exhibition about the Women's Suffrage Movement in Coventry, with Tara Morton of the History Department. It's a great topic.

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Recently given a makeover with new all-glass exhibition cases, this is a classic Victorian museum, founded for teaching, updated with some of the best museum design there is. Rather than just being a vast collection, in the Victorian style, every exhibit is arranged to tell a story, to communicate knowledge, to challenge and to inspire.

Kathleen Hyndman, Nature + Maths = Art

We are currently helping Helen Verrill from our Maths Department to plan a major international conference on maths and art for 2027. Kathleen Hyndman's paintings are one of the best examples of this synergy. In 2025 her work was exhibited in the Mathematics Institute at Oxford University. We made a short film to record the exhibition and to help inspire work on the planned conference.

Tech highlights at the Battle of Waterloo Museum in Belgium

Animated paintings in the main museum, and an amazing audiovisual show in the farmhouse. Visited in August 2025. The films are projected onto moving panels, with 3D reliefs.

Podcasts also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Videos are on our YouTube channel.

Produced by the Digital Arts and Humanities Lab staff and students, led by Dr Robert O'Toole.

Got an idea for a podcast?

Want to join the DAHL production team?

Contact Robert.