Upcycling and Glad Rags
Museum Secrets
English - January 08, 2021 01:00 - 9 minutes - 6.34 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
Francesca Leoni, the Ashmolean’s Curator of Islamic Art, tells the story of an up-cycled Cretan wedding dress which found its way to the UK as a cushion cover.
Cretan Cushion Cover – View it here
If you want to take a closer look at the cushion cover 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: Lucie Dawkins
Presenters: Lucie Dawkins and Francesca Leoni
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.