Museum Archipelago

3. Museum Authority in a World of User-Generated Content with Seb Chan

May 5th, 2015  |  10 mins 13 secs

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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 Technologies at Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, talks about the ways that museums can share that authority with museum visitors comfortable with a less top-down approach to authority.

For discussions on how museum's got to amass so much authority, stay tuned to Museum Archipelago.

2. Labels

April 15th, 2015  |  5 mins 53 secs

Early 20th century cartoons showed exhausted visitors craning their necks to read labels and stopping over to examine artifacts. What's the story 100 years later?

1. Lobby

April 3rd, 2015  |  4 mins 10 secs

The lobby is where you transform from an ordinary person into a museum visitor.

In this first episode of Museum Archipelago, host Ian Elsner introduces the show and describes the transformative power of the museum lobby.