Museum Archipelago

38. Conservation in the 21st Century with Sanchita Balachandran

March 19th, 2018  |  13 mins 35 secs

sanchita balachandran

Sanchita Balachandran, Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, hopes to see the field of conservation develop into more of a social process, rather than simply a technical one.

37. The National Public Housing Museum with Robert J. Smith III

March 5th, 2018  |  13 mins 9 secs

national public housing museum, robert j. smith iii

It would have been much easier to build the National Public Housing Museum from scratch instead of building it in the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes, one of the first public housing development in Chicago.

36. The Underground Railroad in Niagara Falls with Bill Bradberry

February 19th, 2018  |  12 mins 52 secs

bill bradberry, niagara falls underground railroad heritage center

Bill Bradberry, the President and Chairman of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Area Commission, thinks of the entire city of Niagara Falls, NY as an open crime scene from “the crime of holding people in bondage, and the man-made crime of trying to escape.”

35. Cartoons from the Museum Floor with Attendants View

February 5th, 2018  |  10 mins 1 sec

Attendants View is a blog of hand-drawn, single page cartoons that capture a slice of a museum attendant’s day.

34. Erotic Heritage Museum with Dr. Victoria Hartmann

January 22nd, 2018  |  7 mins 36 secs

erotic heritage museum, victoria hartmann

The Las Vegas Erotic Heritage Museum is the largest erotic museum in the world. Sex scholar Dr. Victoria Hartmann has been the museum’s director since 2014, and her mission is to create a space for people to safely explore and engage the topic of human sexuality.

33. Icelandic Museums with Hannah Hethmon

January 8th, 2018  |  12 mins 28 secs

hannah hethmon

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.

32. What a Museum on the Moon Might Look Like With Michelle Hanlon

December 25th, 2017  |  13 mins 27 secs

apollo 11 historic site, michelle hanlon

Today, we talk with Michelle Hanlon, a space lawyer who volunteers with For All Moonkind, about what it will take to protect these sites them for future generations -- and speculate about what a lunar museum might look like.

31. Habemus with Romina Frontini & Christian Díaz

December 11th, 2017  |  11 mins 20 secs

christian díaz, romina frontini

Habemus is a Spanish-language radio program about museum topics broadcasting out of Bahía Blanca, Argentina.

30. Visitors of Color with Dr. Porchia Moore

November 6th, 2017  |  11 mins 20 secs

porchia moore

Dr. Porchia Moore, Inclusion Catalyst at the Columbia Museum of Art, started Visitors of Color with nikhil trivedi in 2015.

29. A Digital Approach to Museum Maps

October 23rd, 2017  |  4 mins 19 secs

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 at the forefront of a gallery. And when designing maps for museums, we should keep in mind how humanistic digital tools are — and how helpful they can be to museum visitors

28. Leaving the Museum Field with Marieke Van Damme

October 9th, 2017  |  11 mins 51 secs

marieke van damme

Executive Director of the Cambridge Historical Society Marieke Van Damme always knew that working in the museum field is hard.

27. Yo, Museum Professionals

September 11th, 2017  |  4 mins 28 secs

An interactive screen can teach global climate change in ways an object can’t.