![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/sir-tony-robinsons-latest-show-has-a-new-cunning-plan-to-find-hidden-history/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/72667_1_S1_Ep2_Tony-Robinsons-Museum-Of-Us-Birmingham-2-2.jpg&description=Exclusive: The Time Team stalwart says: "I spent 20 years telling people to dig up their back gardens, but in my new show Museum of Us you just have to rummage through your drawers for treasures"Tony Robinson at a pop-up museum in Birmingham with a resident's Jamaican suitcase for new show Museum of UsBlackadder legend and Time Team stalwart Sir Tony Robinson is kicking himself that his latest show was not his own cunning plan. 'It's the perfect idea, I wish I'd thought of it myself,' says the 76-year-old, who says we all have a 'museum of life' in our own homes. He says: 'I've spent 20 years encouraging people to dig up their back gardens looking for history, but you don't even need to do that, just rummage in a drawer.' Following decades of documentary-making, his new series Tony Robinson's Museum Of Us encourages people to share the hidden history behind our front doors. He visits residents from different streets across the UK as they hunt their homes for treasures and help to create their street's very own pop-up community museum in just seven days. Tony Robinson on a street in Bristol for new More4 show Museum of Us ( Harry Truman) 'It's the history of ordinary people. Everyone's got a Museum of Us,' he says. 'We've all got a few things tucked away, like the old lead from your favourite dog or a tea cup that your gran gave you. 'We don't really know what to do with them or why we've still got them but we certainly wouldn't give them to the Antiques Roadshow. 'They are our little piece of the museum of our life. The curiosity we have about the great grandparents who died in the first world war or something odd about the shape of your house. 'It's incorporated into all of us and I think the great thing about the show is that it brings those little interests and passions to life. 'People might not be aware that they like history but history is there within all of us. It has always been embedded in me. History was never a subject, but the stories that my mum and da){kind=link}
The Time Team stalwart says: “I spent 20 years telling people to dig up their back gardens, but in my new show Museum of Us you just have to rummage through your drawers for treasures”
Blackadder legend and Time Team stalwart Sir Tony Robinson is kicking himself that his latest show was not his own cunning plan.
“It’s the perfect idea, I wish I’d thought of it myself,” says the 76-year-old, who says we all have a “museum of life” in our own homes.
He says: “I’ve spent 20 years encouraging people to dig up their back gardens looking for history, but you don’t even need to do that, just rummage in a drawer.”
Following decades of documentary-making, his new series Tony Robinson’s Museum Of Us encourages people to share the hidden history behind our front doors.