The Hunterian launches 'The Emotional Museum' podcast series
Published: 16 March 2026
'The Emotional Museum' is a powerful new series on The Hunterian podcast channel, which explores the complex feelings that museums and their collections can provoke.
How do you feel when you step into a museum? This question is at the heart of a new podcast series launched by The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow.
'The Emotional Museum' is a powerful new series on The Hunterian podcast channel, which explores the complex feelings that museums and their collections can provoke.
The series has been developed by a group of seven student scholars from the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with The Hunterian.
Over the course of six episodes, the group has explored the spectrum of emotions that museums can inspire in their visitors, untangling the complex and often overlooked feelings evoked by collections and the spaces that hold them.
Moving beyond the labels and glass cases, the scholars ask what objects really do to us, and how reckoning with these emotions could help build more honest and accountable museums.
From exhaustion to joy and anger to ambivalence, The Emotional Museum reveals how emotional responses uncover the truth about power, identity and belonging, while imaging what museums could be.
'The Emotional Museum' is the second series to launch on The Hunterian Podcast platform, which is also home to the popular 'Curating Discomfort' series.
Listen for free via The Hunterian podcast channel on the Buzzsprout platform.
First published: 16 March 2026
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