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The Museum: Shopping for Posterity

Series 1, episode 6

Documentary following the events behind the scenes at the British Museum. This programme follows curator Chris Spring's mission to buy La Bouche du Roi, an anti-slavery installation made of petrol cans. He can't afford it without help from the Art Fund, but will his pitch result in success? Meanwhile Philip Attwood is on a Rotterdam barge buying contemporary medals, and Judy Rudoe receives a Soviet-style gift from the modern entrepreneurial Russian industry.