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Amina Wright

British art historian

Jul 22, 2026

8:23
Amina told me about the different ways that she went about securing objects for the museum.
8:28
We couldn't go to the National Gallery for instance and say, oh that Wilton diptych that you've got, that beautiful painting that was made for King Richard II in England, we'd like that please.
8:42
You can't do that.
8:44
So, but it was very much a partnership with national and local museums.
8:51
We worked with the museums to say, well, these are the sort of stories that we'd like to tell.
8:56
These are the sort of things we'd like to talk about.
8:59
What sort of things do you have that are available? So rather than go to them and say, we'll have this, this, this, please.

19 MINS LATER

28:26
A key object in the museum is the Morton frontal, a late 15th century textile that bridges English church life before and after Henry VIII's break with Rome.

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