From us to you, a very British Museum Christmas gift: we invited twelve colleagues across the Museum to tell us about their favourite objects and gathered their responses into a special Christmas compendium. Hear all about the objects that they find inspiring, and the stories behind them.
Sushma Jansari – the Mathura lion capital (Room 33)
Elizabeth Morrison –the Folkton Drums (Room 51)
Sian Toogood – Greek slingshot (Room 69)
Ros Winton – Ancient Egyptian model (Room 65)
Tess Sanders – the Assyrian Lion hunt reliefs (Room 10)
Lee Roberts – Painted Japanese screen (tigers crossing a river) (Room 92)
Nick Harris – Japanese hand grenade casings in (Room 94)
Francesca Hillier – Palmerston gold cups (Room 47)
Alfie Meek – the Alfie lions (Room 47)
Russ McKeown – Portrait of late director Lord Wolfenden (not on display)
Richard Wakeman – the Vindolanda tablets (Room 50)
Hugo Chapman – Samuel Palmer watercolour (Prints and Drawings Study Room)