My friend Joanna Cobley is the Museum Detective, with a podcast and a radio show on Plains FM. We’re both refugees from the Museum of New Zealand back in the early ’90s when it was still called MoNZ. I was a guest on last week’s show, holding forth on flightless birds and exhibiting my famously diplomatic attitude towards people I don’t agree with (Jo promised to cut all that in post-production). The idea of investigating behind the scenes in museums is a very cool one; I always find the back rooms are more interesting than the exhibition galleries, but most of the museum-going public have only the vaguest idea about what goes on there. Next time I’m working in a collection I’ll blog some photos. In the meantime, check out Jo’s podcast on iTunes .