Museum Archipelago Podcast
1) 60. Stephanie Cunningham on the Creation and Growth of Museum Hue
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. Dispose these effo...Show More
60. Stephanie Cunningham on the Creation and Growth of Museum Hue
14:28 | Mar 18th, 2019
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2) 110. Revisiting The ‘Enola Gay Fiasco’ Today
For the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum planned to display the Enola Gay, the Boeing B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The plan...Show More
3) 109. The Rise and Fall of Enterprise Square, USA
For the last few decades of the 20th century, if you visited Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, you could have been serenaded by a barbershop quartet of audio-animatronic portraits of America's founders as fram...Show More
4) 108. The Museum of Utopia and Daily Life
The tension is right there in the name of the Museum of Utopia and Daily Life. It sits inside a 1953 kindergarten building in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, a city that was born from utopian socialist ide...Show More
5) 107. Crypto and Museums Part 1
In November 2021, an extremely rare first printing of the U.S. Constitution was put up for auction at Sotheby's in New York, attracting a unique bidder: ConstitutionDAO, a decentralized autonomous org...Show More
6) 106. Last Call on 'The Streets of Old Milwaukee'
I remember visiting – and loving – The Streets of Old Milwaukee exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum as a child. Opened in 1965, it’s an immersive space with cobblestone streets and perfect lighting...Show More
7) 105. Building a Better Visitor Experience with Open Source Software
While working at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History during the pandemic, Dr. Morgan Rehnberg recognized the institution's limited capacity to develop new digitals exhibits with the propriet...Show More
8) 104. What Large Institutions Can Learn From Small Museums
The Murney Tower Museum in Kingston, Ontario, Canada is a small museum. Open for only four months of the year and featuring only one full-time staff member, the museum is representative of the many sm...Show More
9) 103. How Computers Transformed Museums and Created A New Type of Professional
Museum computing work keeps the museum running, but it’s largely invisible. That is, unless something goes wrong. For Dr. Paul Marty, Professor in the School of Information at Florida State University...Show More
103. How Computers Transformed Museums and Created A New Type of Professional
14:59 | Nov 13th, 2023
10) 102. Copies in Museums
On Berlin’s Museum Island, four stone lion statues perch in the Pergamon Museum. Three of these lions are originals — that is to say, lions carved from dolerite rock between the 10th and 8th centuries...Show More