European Museum of the Year Award

We're gonna set the record straight.

I'm joined by the expert, the great friend of History Hit, a best-selling author and curator of Egypt and Sudan at Manchester Museum, European Museum of the Year, Dr. Campbell Price.

He's back on the podcast to sort out fact from fiction when it comes to the myths of mummification in ancient Egypt.

[dramatic music] Campbell, you're at the coalface.

Presumably mummies loom very large in that conversation.

Yes.

In a popular museum like Manchester, uh, Museum, European Museum of the Year, uh-

Obviously

Mm.

And, um, obviously when I worked at the Arts Council in 2025, they, uh, Manchester Museum, we, they, uh, won European Museum of the Year.

And I remember one of our Tuesday morning meetings where one of the colleagues said, sort of said, "Oh, last night in, um, I think it was in Bialystok, in Poland, Manchester Museum, Esme Ward, and a couple of her colleagues, Kieran and Chloe, uh, had won the European Museum of the Year Award." And the pride and the joy, if you probably can remember that, Mike, with your-

[chuckles]

... insane memory, um, was just so much like positivity and joy, really particularly for a British museum to win the European Museum-