The Camel Who Escaped the Nazis
Museum Secrets
English - January 04, 2021 01:00 - 10 minutes - 7.09 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsArts History museum oxford funny art ashmolean uplifting curators history behind the scenes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Podcast host Lucie Dawkins takes us to meet a Tang Dynasty Camel, who came to Oxford in the suitcase of a Jewish refugee Paul Jacobsthal.
Tang Dynasty Camel – View it here
If you want to take a closer look at the camel discussed in this episode, you can view it at the link above, or visit the podcast page on the Ashmolean website: ashmolean.org/museum-secrets
Producer and Presenter: Lucie Dawkins
About Museum Secrets: The curators at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology have been recording bite-sized tales of the wonderful, and sometimes unexpected, life of a museum. We can’t wait to share them with you! Join us every weekday for 3 weeks, from 28 December onwards, for a daily dose of cheer.