Episode Archive
107 episodes of Museum Archipelago since the first episode, which aired on April 3rd, 2015.
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11. Dead Bodies in Museums Part 1
April 22nd, 2016 | 6 mins 47 secs
The Inuits Robert Peary brought back from his 1897 expedition were treated as artifacts. What that meant post mortem. Part one of a two part series on dead bodies in museums.
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10. Framework For Engaging with Art
April 4th, 2016 | 9 mins 1 sec
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At an art museum, would you rather listen to a detailed guided tour or just enjoy the art without any interpretative support?
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9. The Museum Selfie with Dustin Growick
March 11th, 2016 | 4 mins 57 secs
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Dustin Growick is in charge of audience development and the team lead for science at Museum Hack. Growick and Museum Hack treat a museum as a platform to build something more personal and fun.
One of the tools that they use to make it more personal and fun is the museum selfie. The theory is that taking selfies is easy way to put yourself literally and figuratively in the context of the museum.
In this this episode, Growick discusses the philosophy (as well as some dos and don'ts) of museum selfies.
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8. Calatrava and the Museum Icon
February 10th, 2016 | 6 mins 6 secs
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What will the museum icon look like in 50 years?
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7. What Happens to Dead Amusement Parks?
January 27th, 2016 | 9 mins 11 secs
Most of the time, nothing.
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6. Muzeiko
September 30th, 2015 | 6 mins 41 secs
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Until Muzeiko opens in Sofia, Bulgaria later this week, there were no children’s museums in the Balkans.
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5. StalinWorld
July 24th, 2015 | 7 mins 11 secs
monika bernotas, stalinworld
Go to the central square of any Soviet influenced country like Lithuania, and you will find empty pedestals.
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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.
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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?
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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.