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The British Museum, for A History of the World
A groundbreaking and enormously successful project exploring world history through the British Museum’s unparalleled collection, initiated by the British Museum in partnership with the BBC. At the heart of the initiative was a 100 part series on BBC Radio 4, A History of the World in a 100 Objects, telling a narrative global history through British Museum objects from two million years ago to the present day. The project expanded to include:
The British Museum is one of the world's great resources. The collection holds over seven million objects, with more added every year. It tells the complete story of our history from every corner of the globe, from the dawn of humankind over two million years ago to the present day. The collection is the only one of its kind anywhere. The British Museum – like no other institution – allows an understanding of the complex relationships between the world's societies. The Museum is for everybody, everywhere; since its foundation, its aims have been to hold, study, and preserve its collections for the benefit of all humanity. View British Museum image gallery and venue details
Some of your comments: The British Museum carried out the History Of The World In 100 Objects, which was great and I have it on my MP3 player. The reason I think BM sould win, is because it is one of the only museum to make podcasts, so people in other countries, or even around Britain, can listen to podcast, and get the feeling walking around the museum itself, and looking at the object, even for those people who find it difficult to travel to London, and the podcast inspired me to visit the BM. Neil MacGregor did a fantastic job of bringing the object alive. When I did visit the BM I spent the whole day in the BM, and I would like to visit the BM again very soon. Therefore I would like the BM to with because they have brought the BM to the nation, and even on an international basis too. I believe that the British Museum should win as I feel that the idea of the History of the World was inspired. It was so unexpected to think of getting audiences to have to visualize museum objects with no visuals, in a series of short, well written and engagingly presented programmes on the radio. It also encouraged people to subsequently visit the museum to see the actual objects on display. I know of many people who became hooked on the radio series - one even commented to me that they had found the background flute music as reassuring as the theme music of the Archers! A History of the World in 100 objects was an inspirational idea, which really fired my imagination. Who would think that you could learn so much about an ancient civilisation from a small, timeworn object, like the Minoan Bull leaper? The choices of artefact gave you history in a nutshell, but not just the BIG history in the way of wars, but also the small details of everyday life. The 100 objects showed how we have changed and developed as a civilisation, but also suggesteded how in some ways little has changed - even regressed - since the far distant past. To sum up, it did what all good exhibitions should do: opened eyes and minds and made you want to know more.
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Both the BBC and the British Museum are keen to broaden the concept of A History of the World. The project seeks to encourage listeners to explore not only the global collections of the British Museum but to engage and participate with museums across the country to discover the power of objects.
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