Going Viral

Collecting Covid

Listen on

Episode notes

Mark visits the Science Museum in London to look at their Collecting Covid-19 objects and talk to Natasha McEnroe, the museum’s Keeper of Medicine, about their curatorial choices. The collection currently comprises over 400 items relating to the Covid-19 pandemic, including some major works of art.

Hosted by Mark Honigsbaum @honigsbaum

With:

Natasha McEnroe, Keep of Medicine at Science Museum London

@natashamcenroe

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/project/collecting-covid-19/

Roxanna Halls on her painting of Katie Tomkins, Mortuary and Post-Mortem Services Manager at West Herts Hospitals NHS Trust, created as part of the Portraits for NHS Heroes project in response to the pandemic

https://www.instagram.com/roxanahallsartist/?hl=en

@RoxanaHalls

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/artwork-roxana-halls/

Will Haynes, from the University of Sheffield’s geography department, on the project, “collecting the loneliness of students in the pandemic”

@willr_haynes

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/news/geography-students-publish-research-article

Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald @Melissafitzg

Cover art by Patrick Blower www.blowercartoons.com

If you enjoy our podcast - please leave us a rating or review. Thank you!