Museum of Truth and Lies

SNAKES & LADDERS DEMO: Yasmin Khan invites Subhadra Das to play a game of Snakes & Ladders with a twist. The classic board game is brought to life with a bespoke deck of playing cards. With each dice roll, they discuss controversies that have inspired MOTL’s six pillars of truth-telling, a co-created diagnostic tool summarised as WISDOM:  Whose Voice, 2) Information Integrity, 3) Source, 4) Design, 5) Object story and 6) Museum context. This episode can be used as an interactive audio guide to play the Snakes & Ladders game featured at the end of the Muse-Zine. Have fun! #Collections #Provenance #Ethics #Power #Bias #Orientalism EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS Indian origins of Snakes & Ladders   WISDOM manifesto Game commences  Subhadra highlights some juicy case-studies and shares ideas for the blank cards  Hosted by @YasminCurates in conversation with @Sub_das (Insta)/ @littlegaudy (X).  Do you believe everything you see in museums? Share your thoughts and museum photos via #MuseumTruthLies. Follow https://linktr.ee/museumtruthlies  CREDITS: Host, scriptwriter and editor, Yasmin Khan; Executive Producer, Marie Horner; Composer, Helen A. Wilson; Sound Design, Lucy Dearlove (supported by Lucia Scazzoccio). Funding partners: Art South Asia Project and ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation Recommended resourcesMOTL Muse-Zine https://muse-zine.xyz

Museums and AI: Dr Oonagh Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture & Society at Goldsmith’s University, shares her visionary insights about how Artificial Intelligence is shaping the future of storytelling in museums. Can curators use AI to stop misinformation? #AI #Archives #Datasets #Innovation EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS What drives Oonagh’s interest in AI? Making an ethical AI toolkit for museums.  Which museums are using AI well? Funding innovative practice.  Benefits of museums experimenting with AI  Demystifying datasets. Risks for museums using AI.  How will AI impact curating?  What gets Oonagh out of bed and keeps her awake at night? Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) with Arts Council England Oonagh’s challenge for Yasmin. Hosted by @YasminCurates in conversation with @OonaghTweets Do you believe everything you see in museums? Share your thoughts and museum photos online via #MuseumTruthLies. Follow https://linktr.ee/museumtruthlies  Recommended resources MOTL Muse-Zine https://muse-zine.xyz  AI: A Museum Planning Toolkit https://themuseumsai.network/toolkit  Developing a Responsible AI Innovation Framework for the subsidised arts and culture sector, with Arts Council England https://braiduk.org/developing-a-responsible-ai-innovation-framework-for-the-subsidised-arts-and-culture-sector-with-arts-council-england  CREDITS: Host and scriptwriter, Yasmin Khan; Executive Producer, Marie Horner; Composer, Helen A. Wilson; Sound Design, Lucy Dearlove (supported by Lucia Scazzoccio). SPONSORS: Art South Asia Project and ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation

Curating naked truths: Tate Modern’s Director Emerita, Frances Morris appears alongside the Guerilla Girls who are a feminist artist collective from New York City that formed in 1985. They share subversive anecdotes of transforming patriarchal representations of women in museums and debate why museums are not neutral. Episode highlights Do museums tell the truth?  Censorship and missing stories Truth-telling advice for artists and curators   #Tate #Gallery #Art #Activism #Change #HumanRights #Advocacy #cancelculture #censorship #culturewars #socialjustice Hosted by @YasminCurates in conversation with @GuerillaGirls and Frances Morris @Tate  Do you believe everything you see in museums? Share your thoughts and museum photos via #MuseumTruthLies. CREDITS: Host and scriptwriter, Yasmin Khan; Executive Producer, Marie Horner; Composer, Helen A. Wilson; Sound Design, Lucy Dearlove (supported by Lucia Scazzoccio). SPONSORS: Art South Asia Project and ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation Recommended resources Guerrilla Girls reveal enduring inequalities in museums and galleries at Whitechapel Gallery (2016), by Yasmin Khan, Museums + Heritage Advisor  https://museumsandheritage.com/advisor/insights/guerilla-girls-reveal-enduring-inequalities-in-museums-and-galleries-at-whitechapel-gallery/  Tate Modern  https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/g/guerrilla-girls  Guerilla Girls www.guerrillagirls.com  Guerrilla Girls – 'You Have to Question What You See' | Artist Interview | TateShots (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uKg7hb2yoo The White Pube https://thewhitepube.co.uk/ 

Museums and Climate Change: The co-directors of the Crab Museum explain how they blend humour, politics, and science to engage visitors. They critique the ethics of using fossil fuel sponsorship to fund exhibitions and galleries. Yasmin visits the Crab Museum in Margate to see how they are blending humour, politics, science, philosophy and crabs to successfully engage visitors on environmental and social issues. The Crab Museum team explain their anti-capitalist decolonial approach. They discuss how to exhibit contentious histories and navigate current affairs without jeopardising truth-telling. #Biology #Capitalism #Climate #Colonialism  #Crabs #Curation #Diversity #Environment #Ethics #Evolution #Funding #Fossil-Fuel #Governance #Margate #Museum #NaturalHistory #Oil #Sea #Storytelling Hosted by @YasminCurates in conversation with @CrabMuseum. Do you believe everything you see in museums? Share your thoughts and museum photos via #MuseumTruthLies. Follow https://linktr.ee/museumtruthlies  CREDITS: Host, scriptwriter and editor, Yasmin Khan; Executive Producer, Marie Horner; Composer, Helen A. Wilson; Sound Design, Lucy Dearlove (supported by Lucia Scazzoccio). Funding partners: Art South Asia Project and ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation Recommended resources: https://www.crabmuseum.org/

Visual Artist Peter Kennard, renowned for his political photomontage, zooms in on how museums depict war and conflict. He sheds light on the connections between art, activism and political censorship.  Peter has been at the forefront of anti-war activism for over 50 years. This episode reveals what drives him to speak truth to power and what inspires people to use his artwork to campaign for social justice. Yasmin visits Peter in his studio ahead of the opening of his latest exhibition, Archive of Dissent at the Whitechapel Gallery, in East London. Featuring contributions from Matt Kennard (Co-founder of Declassified), Ahmed Alnaouq (Palestinian journalist), Harris Elliot (curator and artist), and Danny Robins (BBC Sounds podcaster). #Activism #Art #Campaining #Politics #Protest #Resistance #War #Conflict #Gaza #Palestine #Ukraine #UK #Politics #News #Propaganda #Sponsorship #Censorship #Funding #Freedom  Hosted by @YasminCurates in conversation with @peterkennardx. Do you believe everything you see in museums? Share your thoughts and museum photos using the hashtag #MuseumTruthLies. CREDITS: Host, scriptwriter and editor, Yasmin Khan; Executive Producer, Marie Horner; Composer, Helen A. Wilson; Sound Design, Lucy Dearlove (supported by Lucia Scazzoccio). Funding partners: Art South Asia Project and ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation Recommended resources: We are Not Numbers https://wearenotnumbers.org/  Declassified UK https://www.declassifieduk.org/  A/Political https://a-political.org/  The Museum of Everything (BBC Radio 4) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ffykq