The Sensational Museum

A welcome to the TSM multisensory interpretation Toolkit , produced and recorded by The Sensational Museum team members, Dr Alison Eardley and Dr Charlotte Slark. Alison  speaks authoritatively and enthusiastically. She has a north London accent and speeds up when she’s excited. While her voice is not particularly high pitched, it is a much lower octave in her head than in reality. Charlotte&...

This is a podcast episode, produced and recorded by The Sensational Museum Postdocs, Dr Sophie Vohra and Dr Charlotte Slark, providing a final round up of the progress of the project and how the principles of TSM can be embedded into museum practices. Sophie speaks in a clear and considered way, with a lyrical, soft and lower vocal tone… and occasionally some loud laughs! Putting on her more ‘form...

This is Sensational Shorts podcast episode on identity was produced and recorded by The Sensational Museum Postdoc, Dr Sophie Vohra and her guest, Surya Bowyer, a curator, historian and Collaborative Doctoral Award Student with Birkbeck, University of London and the Science Museum. They discuss the complexities of personal identity, how cultural backgrounds and experiences shape us, and how this c...

This is a transcription of the Audio Description episode of the Sensational Shorts podcast, produced and recorded by The Sensational Museum team members, Dr Alison Eardley and Dr Charlotte Slark Alison speaks authoritatively and enthusiastically. She has a north London accent and speeds up when she’s excited. While her voice is not particularly high pitched, it is a much lower octave in her head t...

This is the co-creation episode of the Sensational Shorts podcast, produced and recorded by Dr Charlotte Slark featuring a special guest host, Amy Thraves-Conner. Charlotte speaks animatedly and talks faster when she’s excited. She has a southern English accent, which a local person would identify as a somewhat polished combination of Slough and Staines upon Thames (think quite hard consonants!)....

This is a transcription of the Disability Equity episode of the Sensational Shorts podcast, produced and recorded by Dr Charlotte Slark featuring a special guest host, Kyle Lewis Jordan. Charlotte speaks animatedly and talks faster when she’s excited. She has a southern English accent, which a local person would identify as a somewhat polished combination of Slough and Staines upon Thames (think q...

This is a podcast episode, produced and recorded by The Sensational Museum post-doctoral researchers, Dr Charlotte Slark and Dr Sophie Vohra, discussing how they want and need to support lasting mindset changes in museum practice to support the implementation of trans-sensory thinking and practice, as well as fully equitable access the museum collections, content and spaces. Charlotte speaks anima...

This is the Disability Gain episode of the Sensational Shorts Podcast, produced and recorded by The Sensational Museum post-doctoral researchers, Dr Charlotte Slark and Dr Sophie Vohra. Charlotte speaks animatedly and talks faster when she’s excited. She has a southern English accent, which a local person would identify as a somewhat polished combination of Slough and Staines upon Thames (think qu...

This is the Multisensory episode of the Sensational Shorts Podcast, produced and recorded by The Sensational Museum post-doctoral researchers, Dr Charlotte Slark and Dr Sophie Vohra. Charlotte speaks animatedly and talks faster when she’s excited. She has a southern English accent, which a local person would identify as a somewhat polished combination of Slough and Staines upon Thames (think quite...

Sophie Vohra (Strand A post-doc) shares her encounter with a peculiar mirror in a bathroom at a writing retreat she attended with Strand B post-doc, Charlotte Slark, noting its various descriptive and evocative, sensory features. She associates the mirror with cultural references, including Harry Potter and spiritualism, and expresses a mix of fascination and unease. Head to our website for the am...

Have you tried to describe a sound that makes you feel a certain way? Rather than relying on the sound to do the heavy lifting, Sophie created an exercise where you instead provide a broader contextual scape of not only the sound, but how it changes the space, and how you feel (both inside and outside) about it. Check out the full descriptive transcript below, and why not try out this exercise for...

This is a podcast episode, produced and recorded by The Sensational Museum Postdocs, Dr Sophie Vohra and Dr Charlotte Slark, introducing listeners (and readers) to the 'two strands' and big concepts of the project. Sophie speaks in a clear and considered way, with a lyrical, soft and lower vocal tone… and occasionally some loud laughs! Putting on her more ‘formal voice’, here she speaks with a ‘no...