Podcasts by Museum Archipelago
A tiny show guiding you through the rocky landscape of museums. Museum Archipelago believes that no museum is an island and that museums are not neutral.
Taking a broad definition of museums, host Ian Elsner brings you to different museum spaces around the world, dives deep into institutional problems, and introduces you to the people working to fix them. Each episode is never longer than 15 minutes, so let’s get started.
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103. How Computers Transformed Museums and Created A New Type of Professional from 2023-11-13T12:30
Computing work keeps museums running, but it’s largely invisible. That is, unless something goes wrong. For Dr. Paul Marty (https://marty.cci.fsu.edu/), Professor in the School of Information at Fl...
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102. Copies in Museums from 2023-07-31T13:15
On Berlin’s Museum Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Island), four stone lion statues perch in the Pergamon Museum (https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/pergamonmuseum/home/). ...
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101. Buzludzha Always Centered Visitor Experience. Dora Ivanova is Using Its Structure to Create a New One. from 2023-01-23T10:45
Since it opened in 1981 to celebrate the ruling Bulgarian Communist Party, Buzludzha has centered the visitor experience. Every detail and sightline of the enormous disk of concrete perched on a mo...
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100. The Archipelago Museum from 2022-11-28T11:30
In the early days of this podcast, every time I searched for Museum Archipelago on the internet, the top result would be a small museum in rural Finland called the Archipelago Museum. As my podcas...
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99. Museums in Video Games from 2022-08-08T10:15
The Computer Games Museum in Berlin knows that its visitors want to play games, so it lets them. The artifacts are fully-playable video games, from early arcade classics like PacMac to modern conso...
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98. At the Panama Canal Museum, Ana Elizabeth González Creates a Global Connection Point from 2022-02-14T11:15
When Ana Elizabeth González was growing up in Panama, the history she learned about the Panama Canal in school told a narrow story about the engineering feat of the Canal’s construction by the Unit...
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97. Richard Nixon Hoped to Never Say These Words about Apollo 11. In A New Exhibit, He Does. from 2022-01-17T10:15
As the Apollo 11 astronauts hurtled towards the moon on July 18th, 1969, members of the Nixon administration realized they should probably make a contingency plan. If the astronauts didn’t make it ...
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96. Tegan Kehoe Explores American Healthcare Through 50 Museum Artifacts from 2021-11-15T10:00
Public historian and writer Tegan Kehoe knows that museum visitors act differently around the same object presented in different contexts—like how the same visitor excited by a bayonet that causes ...
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95. The Museum of Technology in Helsinki, Finland Knows Even the Most Futuristic Technology Will One Day Be History from 2021-08-30T23:45
In 1969, noticing that technological progress was changing their fields, heads of Finish industry came together to found a technology museum in Finland. Today, the Museum of Technology in Helsinki ...
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94. Jazz Dottin Guides Viewers Through Massachusetts’s Buried Black History from 2021-06-28T08:45
The deliberate exclusion of Black history and the history of slavery in the American South has been slow to reverse. But Jazz Dottin, creator and host of the Black Gems Unearthed YouTube channel sa...
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93. Bulgaria’s Narrow Gauge Railway Winds Through History. Ivan Pulevski Helped Turn One of Its Station Stops Into a Museum. from 2021-06-07T09:30
In 1916, concerned that the remote Rhodope mountains would be hard to defend against foreign invaders, a young Bulgarian Kingdom decided to build a narrow gauge railway to connect villages and town...
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92. The Pleven Panorama Museum Transports Visitors Through Time, But Not Space from 2021-05-03T08:45
The Pleven Panorama transports visitors through time, but not space. The huge, hand-painted panorama features the decisive battles of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–78, fought at this exact spot, ...
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92. The Pleven Panorama Museum Transports Visitors Through Time, But Not Space from 2021-05-03T08:45
The Pleven Panorama transports visitors through time, but not space. The huge, hand-painted panorama features the decisive battles of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–78, fought at this exact spot, ...
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91. How Fake Museums Are Used in Theme Parks with Shaelyn Amaio from 2021-04-19T11:30
Museums can be a shorthand for truth, or for history, or for what a culture values. Disney theme parks all around the world use fake museums as a tool to immerse visitors in the themed environment....
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90. Civil Rights Progress Isn't Linear. The Grove Museum Interprets Tallahassee's Struggle in an Unexpected Setting. from 2021-03-15T12:15
The Grove Museum inside the historic Call/Collins House is one of Tallahassee’s newest museums, and it’s changing how the city interprets its own history. Instead of focusing on the mansion house’s...
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89. Tehmina Goskar Critically Engages with Curation, Wherever It Happens from 2021-02-22T10:30
Dr. Tehmina Goskar, director of the Curatorial Research Centre, co-founded MuseumHour with Sophie Ballinger in October 2014. The weekly peer-to-peer chat on Twitter “holds space for debate” for mus...
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88. Jérôme Blachon Collects and Transmits Precious Memories at the Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Haute-Garonne, France from 2021-01-25T09:00
During World War II, a Nazi collbatoring regime governed the south of France, and the city of Toulouse was a Resistance hub. The Vichy Government promoted anti-Semitism and collaborated with the Na...
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87. The Vitosha Bear Museum Lives in a Tiny Mountain Hut from 2020-11-16T11:00
Vitosha Mountain, the southern border of Sofia, Bulgaria, is home to about 15 brown bears and one bear museum. According to Dr. Nikola Doykin, fauna expert at the Vitosha Nature Park Directorate, t...
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86. Nashid Madyun Fights the Compression of Black History at the Meek-Eaton Black Archives from 2020-09-21T10:00
History professor Dr. James Eaton taught his students with the mantra: “African American History is the History of America.” As chair of the history department at FAMU, a historically Black Univers...
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85. The John G. Riley House is All That Remains of Smokey Hollow. Althemese Barnes Turned It Into a Museum on Tallahassee’s Black History from 2020-08-31T10:00
During the period of Jim Crow and the Black Codes, a self-sustaining Black enclave called Smokey Hollow developed near downtown Tallahassee, Florida. As the first Black principal of Lincoln High S...
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84. On Richmond’s Transformed Monument Avenue, A Group of Historians Erect Rogue Historical Markers from 2020-08-10T09:45
Near the empty pedestals of Confederate figures that used to tower over Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, a new type of historical marker now stands. The markers have most of the trappings of ...
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83. Chris Newell Forges The Snowshoe Path as the First Wabanaki Leader of the Abbe Museum from 2020-07-06T09:45
Chris Newell remembers the almost giddy level of excitement he felt when he visited the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine as a kid. Every summer, the family drove for more than two hours for his fat...
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82. Statues and Museums from 2020-06-15T09:00
In the wake of the racist murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol tore down a statue of Edward Colston, a prominent 17th Century slave trader. Protesters rol...
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81. Living History in a Pandemic at Old Sturbridge Village from 2020-06-01T09:30
Old Sturbridge Village is a living history museum in Massachusetts depicting life in rural New England during the early 19th century. But the early 19th century isn’t specific enough for the site’s...
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80. British Museum Curator Sushma Jansari Shares Stories and Experiments of Decolonising Museums from 2020-05-04T09:45
The British Museum’s South Asia Collection is full of Indian objects. Dr. Sushma Jansari, Tabor Foundation Curator of South Asia at the British Museum, does not want visitors to overlook the violen...
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79. The Future of Hands-On Museum Exhibits with Paul Orselli from 2020-04-20T10:00
The modern museum invites you to touch. Or it would, if it wasn’t closed due to the Covid-19 outbreak. The screens inside the Fossil Hall at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC...
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78. How Museums Present Public Health with Raven Forest Fruscalzo from 2020-03-30T09:45
Museums across the globe are now closed because of Covid-19. Some of those shuttered galleries presented the science behind outbreaks like the one we’re living through. As Raven Forrest Fruscalzo, ...
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77. Trump Asks, “Who's Next?” Lyra Monteiro Answers, Washington’s Next! from 2020-03-16T09:30
The statue of George Washington in New York City's Union Square commemorates him on a particular day—November 25th, 1783—the date when the defeated British Army left Manhattan after the American Re...
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76. 400 Years Post-Mayflower, the Provincetown Museum Rethinks Its Historical Branding from 2020-03-02T10:15
Sometimes, a historical event is all about the branding. And the brand of Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts as the spot where the Mayflower pilgrims first disembarked 400 years ago this year...
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75. Museduino: Using Open Source Hardware to Power Museum Exhibits from 2020-02-17T10:00
Proprietary technology that runs museum interactives—everything from buttons to proximity sensors—tends to be expensive to purchase and maintain. But Rianne Trujillo (http://www.riannetrujillo.com...
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74. 'Houston, We Have A Restoration' with Sandra Tetley from 2020-01-13T12:00
Every time an Apollo astronaut said the word Houston, they were referring not just to a city, but a specific room in that city: Mission Control. In that room on July 20, 1969, NASA engineers answer...
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73. Sanchita Balachandran Shifts the Framework for Conservation with Untold Stories from 2019-12-02T08:45
The field of conservation was created to fight change: to prevent objects from becoming dusty, broken, or rusted. But fighting to keep cultural objects preserved creates a certain mindset — a minds...
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72. ‘Speechless: Different by Design’ Reframes Accessibility and Communication in a Museum Context from 2019-11-18T09:45
Museums tend to be verbal spaces: there’s usually a lot of words. Galleries open with walls of text, visitors are presented with rules of do and don'ts, and audio guides lead headphone-ed users fr...
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71. Assessing Curatorial Work for Social Justice With Elena Gonzales from 2019-10-28T10:45
Museums are seen as trustworthy, but what if that trust is misplaced? Chicago-based independent curator Elena Gonzales provides a solid jumping off point for thinking critically about museums in he...
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70. The Gabrovo Museum of Humor Bolsters Its Legacy of Political Satire Post-Communism from 2019-09-30T07:15
To the extent that there was a Communist capital of humor in the last half of the 20th century, it was Gabrovo, Bulgaria. Situated in a valley of the Balkan mountains, the city prides itself on its...
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69. Soviet Spacecraft in the American Heartland: The Story of the Kansas Cosmosphere from 2019-08-26T07:30
From Apollo Mission Control in Houston, Texas, to the field in southeastern Russia where Yuri Gargarin finished his first orbit, there are many sites on earth that played a role in space exploratio...
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68. The Akomawt Educational Initiative Forges a Snowshoe Path to Indigenize Museums from 2019-08-05T08:00
Akomawt is a Passamaquoddy word for the snowshoe path. At the beginning of winter, the snowshoe path is hard to find. But the more people pass along and carve out this path through the snow during ...
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67. Cité de l'Espace Celebrates Apollo Day from the Middle of the Space Race from 2019-07-15T07:45
Cité de l'Espace (https://en.cite-espace.com/) in Toulouse, France is a museum in the middle. It is in the middle of France’s Aerospace Valley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_Valley) and t...
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66. From ‘Extinct Monsters’ to ‘Deep Time’: A History of the Smithsonian Fossil Hall from 2019-06-17T08:00
The most-visited room in the most-visited science museum in the world reopened last week after a massive, five year renovation (https://extinctmonsters.net/2019/06/14/deep-time-is-a-masterpiece/). ...
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65. Sarah Nguyen Helps Fight Digital Decay with Preserve This Podcast from 2019-06-03T08:00
Everything decays. In the past, human heritage that decayed slowly enough on stone, vellum, bamboo, silk, or paper could be put in a museum—still decaying, but at least visible. Today, human herita...
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64. Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Atlantis Experience Is Part Museum, Part Themed Attraction from 2019-05-13T08:30
The Space Shuttle Atlantis Experience, which opened at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Visitor_Complex) in Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2013 b...
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63. Sex and Death Are on Display at The Museum of Old and New Art from 2019-04-29T08:00
The Museum of Old and New Art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art) opened in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia in 2011. With a name like that, MONA (https://mona.net.au/) could inclu...
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62. David Gough Reclaims Stewardship of Tiagarra for Aboriginal Tasmanians from 2019-04-15T07:45
The displays at the Tiagarra Cultural Centre and Museum (https://tiagarra.weebly.com/) in Devonport, Tasmania, Australia were built in 1976 (https://tiagarra.weebly.com/tiagarra-opening-and-timelin...
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61. Jody Steele Centers the Convict Women of Tasmania's Penal Colonies at the Female Factory from 2019-04-01T08:15
Penal transportation from England to Australia from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s was used to expand Britain's spheres of influence and to reduce overcrowding in British prisons. The male convict...
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60. Stephanie Cunningham on the Creation and Growth of Museum Hue from 2019-03-18T06:00
The fight for racial diversity in museums and other cultural institutions is not new: people of color have been fighting for inclusion in white mainstream museums for over 50 years (https://amzn.to...
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59. Faith Displayed As Science: How Creationists Co-opted Museums with Julie Garcia from 2019-03-04T07:00
There’s a new tool in young-Earth creationists' quest for scientific legitimacy: the museum. Over the past 25 years, dozens of so-called creation museums have been built, including the Answers in G...
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58. Joe Galliano Fills In The UK’s Family Tree At The Queer Britain Museum from 2019-02-11T08:30
Joe Galliano (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephgalliano) came up with the idea for Queer Britain (https://twitter.com/queer_britain), the UK’s national LGBTQ+ museum, during the 50th anniversary o...
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57. The Colored Conventions Project Resurrects Disremembered History With Denise Burgher, Jim Casey, Gabrielle Foreman,&Many Others from 2019-01-28T08:00
In American history most often told, the vitality of Black activism has been obscured in favor of celebrating white-lead movements. In the 19th century, an enormous network of African American acti...
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56. Lana Pajdas Trains Her ‘Fun Museums’ Lens to Croatian Heritage Sites, From The Battle of Vukovar to Over-Tourism in Dubrovnik from 2019-01-07T10:30
Lana Pajdas (https://twitter.com/LanaPajdas) is the founder of Fun Museums (http://funmuseums.eu), a heritage and culture travel blog with a radical idea: museums are fun. It is the guiding princip...
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55. Barbara Hicks-Collins Is Turning Her Family Home Into the Bogalusa Civil Rights Museum from 2018-12-03T07:45
Barbara Hicks-Collins grew up in a Civil Rights house (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_%22Bob%22_Hicks_House) in Bogalusa, Louisiana. In her family breakfast room in 1965, her father, the late...
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54. Buzludzha Is Deteriorating. Brian Muthaliff Wants To Turn It Into A Winery. from 2018-11-19T10:30
High in the Balkan mountains, Buzludzha monument is deteriorating. Designed to emphasize the power and modernity of the Bulgarian Communist Party (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7I65bs_HH4), Buzl...
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53. Tribal Historic Preservation Office Helps Students Map Seminole Life for the Ah-tah-thi-ki Museum from 2018-11-05T09:30
The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum (https://www.ahtahthiki.com/), on the Big Cypress Reservation in the Florida Everglades, serves as the public face of the Seminole Tribe of Florida (https:/...
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52. Paula Santos Dives Into The "How" of Museum Work on Cultura Conscious from 2018-10-15T07:15
By day, Paula Santos (http://www.culturaconscious.com/about/) is Community Engagement Manager at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art...
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51. Yulina Mihaylova Presents a Moral Lesson at the Sofia Jewish Museum of History from 2018-10-01T06:45
The Jewish Museum of History in Sofia, Bulgaria (http://www.sofiasynagogue.com) is housed on the second floor of the Sofia Synagogue in the center of Bulgaria's capital, just steps away from an Ort...
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50. Allison Sansone Connects Writers and Readers at the American Writers Museum from 2018-09-17T06:30
When the American Writers Museum (https://americanwritersmuseum.org/) opened in Chicago in 2017, it became the first museum in the US to celebrate all genres of writing. Early in the planning phase...
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49. Deyana Kostova Centers ‘The Little Man’ in War at the Bulgarian National Museum of Military History from 2018-09-03T11:45
The campus of theBulgarian National Museum of Military Historyin Sofia is defended on all sides byListen
48. Museums Are Really Sensitive To Critique. Palace Shaw&Ariana Lee Decided They Don’t Care. from 2018-08-20T05:45
Ariana Lee and Palace Shaw createThe Whitest Cube, an excellent new museum podcast about people of color and their experiences with art instit...
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47. Buzludzha is Deteriorating. Dora Ivanova Wants To Turn It Into A Museum. from 2018-07-23T07:00
High in the Bulgarian mountains, Buzludzha monument is deteriorating. Commemorating early Bulgarian Marxists, it was designed to ...
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46. Vessela Gercheva Directs Playful Exhibits at Bulgaria’s First Children’s Museum from 2018-07-09T07:00
There were no children’s museumsin the Balkans before...
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45. Margaret Middleton Designs Museum Exhibits for All Ages from 2018-06-25T06:00
Margaret Middletonis an independent exhibit designer and museum consultant based in Providence, RI, USA. Middleton recently completed the design o...
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44. Vassil Makarinov Presents Technology and History at the Bulgarian Polytechnical Museum from 2018-06-11T07:00
TheBulgarian National Polytechnical Museumis a science museum that also tells the story of Bulgarian and world history. ...
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43. Blake Bradford Aims To Increase Number of Black Museum Professionals with Lincoln University Program from 2018-05-28T06:00
In episode 36 of this podcast, Bill Bradberry, Chair of theNiagara Falls Underground Railroad ...
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42. Freddi Williams Evans and Luther Gray Are Erecting Historic Markers on the Slave Trade in New Orleans from 2018-05-14T08:00
Until a few weeks ago, one of the only places in downtown New Orleans acknowledging the city’s slave-trading past was a marker inCo...
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41. 16,000 Years at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter with David Scofield from 2018-04-30T08:00
40. Conserving Digital Photos with Jenny Mathiasson and Kloe Rumsey from 2018-04-16T07:00
39. Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum with James Delbourgo from 2018-04-02T07:00
Over the course of his long life, Hans Sloane collected tens of thousands of items which became the basis for what is today the British Museum. Funded in large part by his marriage into the ensl...
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38. Conservation in the 21st Century with Sanchita Balachandran from 2018-03-19T07:00
Image: Sanchita Balachandran. Photo Credit: James Rensselaer.
Sanchita Balachandran, Associate Director of theListen
37. The National Public Housing Museum with Robert J. Smith III from 2018-03-05T05:00
It would have been much easier to build theNational Public Housing Museumfrom scratch instead of retrofitting it in the last remaining building of the Jane Addams...
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36. The Underground Railroad in Niagara Falls with Bill Bradberry from 2018-02-19T06:45
Bill Bradberry, the President and Chairman of theNiagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Area Commission, thinks of the entire city ...
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35. Cartoons from the Museum Floor with Attendants View from 2018-02-05T08:00
Attendants Viewis a blog of hand-drawn, single page cartoons that capture a slice of a museum attendant’s day. The comics show confused visitors, tou...
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34. Erotic Heritage Museum with Dr. Victoria Hartmann from 2018-01-22T07:00
TheLas Vegas Erotic Heritage Museumis the largest erotic museum in the world. Sex scholarDr. Victori...
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33. Icelandic Museums with Hannah Hethmon from 2018-01-08T07:00
Iceland has many more museums per person than the UK and the US. The country is also in the middle of a massive tourism boom: there are several times more tourists than residents.Listen
32. What a Museum on the Moon Might Look Like With Michelle Hanlon from 2017-12-25T08:00
Image: The Lower Half of the Apollo 17 Lunar Lander in a debris field in the Taurus–Littrow valley. This view wasca...
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31. Habemus with Romina Frontini&Christian Díaz from 2017-12-11T08:00
Habemusis a Spanish-language radio program about museum topics broadcasting out of Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Every Friday from 9 to 11pm, team members intervi...
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30. Visitors of Color with Dr. Porchia Moore from 2017-11-06T08:00
Dr. Porchia Moore, Inclusion Catalyst at theColumbia Museum of Art, started Visitors of Color with Listen
29. A Digital Approach to Museum Maps from 2017-10-23T10:00
Image: An example of a digital mapping tool, Mapbox Studio Classic. Everything happens at a time and a place. In a museum, that coordinate system can help keep a story straight, even if it is not a...
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28. Leaving the Museum Field with Marieke Van Damme from 2017-10-09T09:00
Executive Director of the Cambridge Historical Society Marieke Van Damme affectionately calls anyone working in the museum field “Museum People.” OnListen
27. Yo, Museum Professionals from 2017-09-11T18:00
Yo, museum professionals: exhibitions aimed at kids should not include interactive screens in galleries. You're undermining your mission! Listen
26. Arab American National Museum with Devon Akmon from 2017-08-28T09:00
Image: Arab American National Museum photo byknightfoundationCC BY-SA 2.0. Before theListen
25. The Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia, Bulgaria is Figuring Out What to Do With All the Lenins from 2017-07-17T11:00
After the fall of communism in Bulgaria in 1989, statues of Bulgarian communist leaders, idealized revolutionary workers, and Lenins were taken down all over the county. Some of these statues are n...
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24. College Hill and the International Slave Trade Walking Tour with Elon Cook from 2017-07-03T03:00
Elon Cookcreated theCollege Hill and the In...
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23. Museum-Metro Station Hybrids from 2017-06-05T10:00
Image: An early rendering of the Serdika station in Sofia, Bulgaria, displaying Roman ruins on the first level underneath the street. During the planning stages for theListen
22. Guide Training at Akagera National Park with Lisa Brochu from 2017-05-15T16:00
I met interpretive plannerLisa BrochuinAkagara National Parkin Rwanda. I was ther...
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21. Apollo 11 Historic Site from 2017-05-01T11:00
Even before I started working in the museum field, I was thinking about the future museum at the Apollo 11 landing site at Tranquility Base on the moon.
The site is special. No matter h...
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20. Universal Design at the White House Visitor Center with Sherril York from 2017-04-18T11:00
Dr. Sherril York, executive director of theNational Center on Accessibility...
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19. Remembering the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre from 2017-04-03T06:00
When theKigali Genocide Memorialwas first built in 1999, it was a burial site outside the Rwandan capitol city for thousands of victims of the 1994 Rwandan Genoc...
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18. Maps and the 20th Century at the British Library from 2017-02-27T15:00
Image: Two propaganda maps at the Maps and the 20th Century exhibit at the British Library.
The Maps and the 20th Century exhibit at the British Library is quick to get to central theme of the ex...
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17. Entertainment and History at Disney's America from 2017-02-06T09:00
Image: A Civil War-era village that would have served as the hub of Disney's America.Image (c) Disney
In 1994, Disney was hard at work on a new theme park called Disney's America. The pa...
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16. Visitation Trends at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum from 2017-01-16T12:00
TheAh-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museumis commemorating three anniversaries in 2017: the 200-year anniversary of the first attack of the Seminole War, th...
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15. Tamar Avishai's The Lonely Palette from 2017-01-02T05:00
The Lonely Paletteis the best museum podcast out there. Host Tamar Avishai wants to make art more accessible and to help people feel more comfortabl...
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14. Early Interpretive Planning at the National Museum of African American History and Culture from 2016-12-12T12:00
Image: Guard tower from Camp H at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola at the National Museum Of African American History And Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Cul...
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13. Museums at a Crossroads with Rainey Tisdale from 2016-06-23T08:00
Curator Rainey Tisdale sees two possible futures for museums: they play a more interdisciplinary role for their audiences or keep going down the same path they're on, becoming less and less rele...
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12. Dead Bodies in Museums Part 2 from 2016-05-24T16:00
Image: Lenin's mausoleum, Moscow. CC byVeni
The American Association of Museums (AAM) has this to say about human remains in its code of ethics: ...
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11. Dead Bodies in Museums Part 1 from 2016-04-22T14:00
Image: A rendering of Minik in theNew York World
When Robert Peary brought six Inuits from Greenland back from his Arctic expedition, they landed in the care of the American Museum of Na...
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10. Framework For Engaging with Art from 2016-04-04T09:00
At an art museum, would you rather listen to a detailed guided tour or just enjoy the art without any interpretative support? Are you more comfortable visiting with a friend, or do you prefer be...
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9. The Museum Selfie with Dustin Growick from 2016-03-11T10:00
Dustin Growick (https://twitter.com/DustinGrowick) is in charge of audience development and the team lead for science at Museum Hack (https://museumhack.com/). Growick and Museum Hack treat a museu...
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8. Calatrava and the Museum Icon from 2016-02-10T16:00
This week, we visit two museum works by architectSantiago Calatrava: theListen
7. What Happens to Dead Amusement Parks? from 2016-01-27T09:00
Most of the time, nothing.
This week, special guest Carole Sanderson of theNational Roller Coaster Museum and Archivesdescribes the proces...
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6. Muzeiko from 2015-09-30T21:00
Until Muzeiko opened in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 1st 2015, there were no children’s museums in the Balkans.
One of the reasons for the lack of children’s museums was a cultural att...
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5. StalinWorld from 2015-07-24T11:00
Image: Monika Bernotas and her family interact with statues of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin that were previously located in the cities of Lithuania at Grutas park.
Go to the central square...
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4. Bison Hunt on Horseback from 2015-05-27T09:00
Built in 1966, the Bison Hunt on Horseback diorama at the Milwaukee Public Museum is a throwback to an older style of exhibit, without projectors or screens. In this epsiode, Dr. Ellen Censky, Seni...
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3. Museum Authority in a World of User-Generated Content with Seb Chan from 2015-05-05T10:15
As one of the nation's most-trusted category of institutions, museums project an enormous amount of authority over their subject matter. In this episode, Seb Chan, Director of Digital&Emerging Tech...
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