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Nov 2, 2026
Tim BeynonHOST
Fantastic.
Tim BeynonHOST
Can you give us a real-world example of a small change that's made a surprisingly big difference? And I've got to pick out Horniman's Adventure Playground, which sounds like one.
Tim BeynonHOST
Can you tell us about that?
Tom MansellGUEST
Yeah, sure.
Tom MansellGUEST
So that's one of the case studies included in the report.
Tom MansellGUEST
I think what's interesting about Horniman's is that they – They recognised the need and they didn't try and do everything initially.
Tom MansellGUEST
They took the time that was required to really make sure they were thinking about this as an organisation.
Tom MansellGUEST
And they've had training now across their trustee board, their senior leadership, all the way down to kind of some of their young people who volunteer.
Kathy ClugstonHOST
Now for some more garden horror from that same year.
Kathy ClugstonHOST
Listener Rebecca sent a voice note to our panel at the Horniman Museum in London, desperate for advice.
Kathy ClugstonHOST
Her garden was infested with hundreds of Halloween's poster arachnid spiders.
Kathy ClugstonHOST
Pest and disease expert Pippa Greenwood stepped in to suggest some natural methods of keeping the creepiest of creepy crawlies at bay.
Pippa GreenwoodPANELIST
imbalance is always the problem but also if it's particularly prolific web producer then say you had 10 of them they would make much more webbing than maybe another species of spider if you had 10 of those as well that's what i was trying to think
James WongPANELIST
i think we're so lucky in this country to have that opportunity as kids to be able to look at all these this wildlife so up close and be totally safe you know when i was growing up running around i found a cobra in my shoes there's my aunt had a python in her sofa you can't commune with the natural world in the same way i mean there's a lot more biodiversity but a lot of it's terrifying like legit terrifying so it's a great way to be able to see the natural world and be able to get over your fear of it
Kathy ClugstonHOST
Some harmless methods of repelling spiders from Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and James Wong, along with Errol Ruben Fernandez from the Horniman Museum in London, which houses thousands of insect and arachnid specimens.
Kathy ClugstonHOST
Peter Gibbs was in the chair.
Sam LakeHOST
Is that? No, I'm thinking of...
Sam LakeHOST
I've heard of the Horniman Museum.
Nikki DruceGUEST
Yes, with the fat walrus.
Nikki DruceGUEST
Yes, but wasn't it like he tried to taxidermy a bunch of animals without knowing what they looked like? So he
Jenny EclairHOST
was another nina puppet but this one at least did fit the bill yes
Jack BernhardtHOST
and also like it it was it felt like one of those things where it's just it is incredibly funny and it's very childish and puerile but like it does really work whereas previous ones you've sort of been like you're trying to jam a puppet into this um situation which you should never try and do um and then i thought this was a misstep from chloe as well the the year 11 prom dress but I did enjoy the story and I enjoyed the joke about the Horniman Museum.
Jack BernhardtHOST
Oh, yeah, which
Jenny EclairHOST
is on my bus route.
Jack BernhardtHOST
And also, it's weird because it's almost like a meta-exhibit now because people know about it as being like, it's a mistake, but now the mistake has become so good.
Jack BernhardtHOST
And it's just, it is impossibly big.
Jack BernhardtHOST
That is the thing I'll say about the Horniman Museum walrus.
Jack BernhardtHOST
And it hasn't got a single
Andrew McDonaldGUEST
It was one of those thought bubbles that doesn't really go anywhere.
Andrew McDonaldGUEST
But then I walked into the Horniman Museum in London and in the natural history wing of that museum, they had a big display of pigeons.
Andrew McDonaldGUEST
They had the rock pigeon, which is the most common pigeon that everybody would be familiar with, right in the middle of that display.
Andrew McDonaldGUEST
And then kind of coming out from that rock pigeon were lines all connecting to other... breeds of pigeons fancy pigeons as they're called so there was a frillback pigeon who was super frilly there was a tumbler pigeon who was able to somersault through the air when they fly there was a nun pigeon there was a fantail pigeon so all the four main real pigeons characters rock frillback tumbler and homie are all in that display that i saw in the museum and oh Their personalities were just, I mean, if you Google them and have a look at these pigeon breeds online, you'll see what I mean.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
Peter Lacovare is a curator at the Albany Institute of History and Art in New York.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
And Heba Abdel-Gawad is Senior Curator of Anthropology at the Horniman Museum in South London.
Rebecca KesbyHOST
And NewsHour's Tim Franks asked Heba first what she makes of the museum's removal of these remains.
Heba Abdel-GawadGUEST
I honestly feel it's long overdue.
5 MINS LATER
Heba Abdel-GawadGUEST
We see it as a concept.
Heba Abdel-GawadGUEST
We see it as orphaned.
Heba Abdel-GawadGUEST
Even for us at the Horniman Museum, in the recent reviews of our policies, we are keen on not only consulting...
Heba Abdel-GawadGUEST
but in making even our policy changes community-led, that we invite indigenous communities in before we make any changes to our practices and our policies.
Tim FranksHOST
We brought together two Egyptologists with contrasting views.
Tim FranksHOST
Peter Lacovara is curator at the Albany Institute of History and Art in New York, and Heba Abdel-Gawad is senior curator of anthropology at the Horniman Museum in London.
Tim FranksHOST
First, Heba, what does she make of the Glasgow Museum's removal of these remains?
Heba Abdel-GawadGUEST
I honestly feel it's long overdue.
6 MINS LATER
Heba Abdel-GawadGUEST
We see it as a concept.
Heba Abdel-GawadGUEST
We see it as orphaned.
Heba Abdel-GawadGUEST
Even for us at the Horniman Museum, in the recent reviews of our policies, we are keen on not only consulting, but in making even our policy changes community-led, that we invite indigenous communities in before we make any changes to our practices and our policies.
Tim FranksHOST
Peter, I think I'm right in saying that your Institute of History and Art, the Albany Institute of History and Art in New York houses two celebrated Egyptian mummies.
Tanis DavidsonGUEST
These, of course, would have been used under the microscope to, again, look at anatomical similarities and differences between these little invert species by students.
AdamCORRESPONDENT
And what separates a place like this from somewhere like the Horniman Museum or the University of Oxford's Natural History Museum? What makes the Grant Museum of Zoology really stand out?
Tanis DavidsonGUEST
Okay, well, you've chosen two interesting comparators there.
Tanis DavidsonGUEST
So, I mean, we are a teaching collection and we've always been a teaching collection.
Tanis DavidsonGUEST
These, of course, would have been used under the microscope to, again, look at anatomical similarities and differences between these little invert species by students.
AdamCORRESPONDENT
And what separates a place like this from somewhere like the Horniman Museum or the University of Oxford's Natural History Museum? What makes the Grant Museum of Zoology really stand out?
Tanis DavidsonGUEST
Okay, well, you've chosen two interesting comparators there.
Tanis DavidsonGUEST
So, I mean, we are a teaching collection and we've always been a teaching collection.
Charity WakefieldGUEST
There are some brilliant gardeners.
Charity WakefieldGUEST
Errol Fernandes at the Horniman Museum, which is where I go a lot with my kid.
Martha SwalesHOST
Mm.
Charity WakefieldGUEST
I think he's outstanding.
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