Museum of Truth and Lies
Museum of Truth & Lies is an audio podcast guiding you through a virtual museum that exists everywhere and nowhere. Enter a labyrinth of imaginary galleries to explore why truth-telling matters in museums. Hear artists and activists reflect on how museums grapple with the most pressing themes of our times.
Episodes
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...
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...
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 ar...
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 tea...
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 h...
Subhadra Das, Writer of Uncivilised: Ten Lies that Made the West (2024), considers how museums are dealing with the challenge to honestly interpret object provenance linked to empire. She questions if museums lie by omission.
#Empire #Eugenics #Genocide #Loot #Racism #NaturalHistory #Restitution #Decolonisation #Universities
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
Critiquing eugenics
Nullius In Verba (take no one’s word for it)
Do museums ...
Ghost in the archives: Multidisciplinary artists, Larry Achiampong and David Blandy divulge how they tackle the ghosts of colonial legacies by using museum archives to create their video works. They are renowned for their compelling video works on race, biology and identity. Their films expose how the pseudo-scientific pursuit of eugenics was used to justify Western colonialism. Recently showcased at the Wellcome Collection, their ...
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