The Collection
Introducing The Collection, a podcast that takes you back of house at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Step inside the dry stores, lift the lid on strange specimen jars and peek inside the deep freeze as we reveal a world of fascinating objects and the stories behind them.
MAGNT’s Curator of Territory History, Jared Archibald, says that “Museums collect objects, and objects tell stories”, and there’s no shortage of stories at MAGNT. Illegal hauls on the high seas, near misses during Cyclone Tracy and the accidental discovery of a strange new species are just some of the stories we unearth in this first season.
Over five episodes, The Collection blends science and storytelling to showcase the rare, wonderful and unexpected objects in Australia’s Northern Territory museum.
The Collection is a Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory podcast produced by StoryProjects with production by Cinnamon Nippard and Lori Uden, music composition by James Mangohig and mixing by Hamish Robertson. Johanna Bell is the Executive Producer.
Season One was created on Larrakia land in the tropical Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory with funding from National Science Week NT.
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and for more information visit magnt.net.au/thecollection
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2020
S1E5: Worm of death
“It looks like an alien... like a deep sea creature. But in real fact, it's actually living a few hundred metres out the front of most people's doorsteps in Darwin.”
Is it a fish? Is it an alien? Is …
S1E4: Surviving a cyclone
“Losing anything from a museum collection is sad … because it’s not just the museum who loses, it’s the people who live in that community.”
In 1974, when Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin, the museum building…
S1E1: How to stuff a giant croc
“Dad brought home a huge lump of the tail and we tried it and it was really tough … just like chewing on white rubber”
Meet Sweetheart, the Territory’s most infamous crocodile and find out how he end…
S1E3: Seven seasons and a very rare fish
“Balnba is the rainy season. Dalay is like the monsoon season, the season of the Cyclones. Mayilema is when it starts drying out. And between Dalay and Mayilema you have what we call the season of th…
S1E2: A heist on the high seas
“The day in mention, I went out to the two fishing vessels that were in our quarantine zone. We had to remove the clams off that vessel … and I saw them and thought this is going to be challenging.”
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S1Trailer: The Collection
Introducing The Collection, a podcast that takes you back of house at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Step inside the dry stores, lift the lid on strange specimen jars and peek …