Museum 100

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, tells the story behind some relics relating to one of the Isle of Man's most curious characters; Arthur Caley, the Manx Giant.

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, with a record player which once belonged to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees - the most famous musical stars yet produced by the IOM

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, looks at a couple of exhibits from the long-gone amusement centre which once sat on Onchan Head - White City.

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, describes an unusual decorative cabinet known as a Spar Box.

Curator of Art and Social History at MHH, Katie King, tells us about a grand dolls house made in the Knockaloe Internee camp during the first war.

Curator or Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, discusses a work by well known Manx artist Bryan Kneale - Ugo

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, finds out more about the woman behind a nineteenth century portrait - Margaret Quayle 

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, tells us about a fireplace designed by the famous architect, Hugh Baillie Scott.

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Kate King, discusses "rapid response" collecting for the museum, looking at a dress worn by the drag queen Vida La Fierce at the Island's first ever Isle of Pride Festival

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, tells us about an epic 1851 painting by English painter John Martin - and why it's in the Manx national collection.

Curator of Art and Social History at MNH, Katie King, describes one of her favourite objects in the national collection - a wooden horse from the Silverdale water-powered carousel.

Archivist at the Manx Museum in Douglas Wendy Thirkettle. discovers some printed regulations from a Tromode flax spinning and sailcloth manufacturer of 1850

Archivist at the Museum Library in Douglas, Wendy Thirkettle, looks at some architectural plans for a planned museum for Douglas from the early 20th century

Libraries and Archive Assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, describes a photograph of old Peel - one of her favourite photographs in the collection.

Library and Archives assistant at MNH, Sarah Christian, chats about a digital scan of a photograph sent to the museum from the antipodes

Library and Archive Assistant at MNH, Kim Holden, looks at a tourist map of the Isle of Man and Street map of Douglas from 1899. 

Library and Archive Assistant at MNH, Kim Holden, talks about the plans for Hutchinson Square Internment Camp. 

MNH Librarian Suzi Heslan looks into the Almanac of the 1910 Ramsey Courier Almanac to remember the Ellan Vannin tragedy

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, with the story of what may be the Island's oldest candle!

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, tells us about a distinctive type of pot made on the Isle of Man in prehistoric times.

Curator of Archaeology at MHJ, Alison Fox, considers why white pebbles are found so often at burial sites on the Island . .  .

Curator of Archaeology at MHH, Alison Fox, tells us how are ancestors may not have been as grubby as they are oft portrayed  . . 

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, talks about a simple game discovered among artefacts on the high slopes in the 1950s

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, discusses a 6,000 year old polished stone axe head, found in what is now Willaston - but made from stone quarried in the Italian Alps!

Curator of Archaeology at MNH, Alison Fox, tells us the story behind some old faded and broken crockery from a grand sailing ship which foundered off the Island's coast in 1834