The Museum of Curiosity

Bio:

The Museum of Curiosity is a brand new conceptual museum, founded and curated by John Lloyd, Bill Bailey, Dan Schreiber and Richard Turner.

Its weekly steering commitee meetings to decide what makes it into the museum's halls is recorded by the BBC and put out on Radio 4.

These meetings are chaired by Lloyd and Bailey, produced by Schreiber and Turner and researched by James Harkin and Xander Cansell.

Click on the picture below to be transported to the BBC's Museum webpage.

Below: Dan Schreiber, John Lloyd and Bill Bailey getting ready for another meeting with the steering commitee.

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Below: A ticket stub.

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The first series received donations from the following:

Episode One: Richard Fortey - The giant hornet of Chang Jiang and Curators of the Natural History Museum; Brian Blessed - A yeti; Sean Lock - The modern scarf knot, or the "Sean Lock neck knot";

Episode Two: Fran Beauman - A pineapple; Gary Sheffield - Anderson Shelters; Ben Elton - Privacy;

Episode Three: Arthur Smith - Arthur Cravan; Frank Close - Nothing; Ronald Hutton - Father Christmas;

Episode Four: Victoria Finlay - Pliny the Elder; Kevin Day - The Battle of Waterloo; Alastair Fothergill - An hairy angler fish;

Episode Five: Jonathan Miller - The Nottingham Alabasters; Philip Ball - Phlogiston; Marcus du Sautoy - The Monster;

Episode Six: John Gribbin - The Big Bang; Alan Davies - Epping Forest; Martha Reeves - Silence

Member Since:

May 10, 2008

Members:

This page is looked after by Dan.

The drawings are by Katie Scott.

If you have any questions email the curators on: curatorsofcuriosity@gmail.com

The Curators of Curiosity are Bailey.Lloyd.Schreiber.Turner

John Lloyd

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John Lloyd is the Professor of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham and producer of Blackadder, Spitting Image, Not the Nine O'Clock News and QI

Bill Bailey

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Bill Bailey is a stand-up comedian, who plays many instruments, visits many islands and is learning many languages.

Dan Schreiber

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Dan Schreiber is a comedy producer and massively successful Chinese singer, known as Canto Pop Superstar

Richard Turner

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Rich Turner is a comedy writer and professional Bonobo impersonator.

Record Label:

BBC