Latest Buzludzha Podcast Episodes
105. Building a Better Visitor Experience with Open Source Software
Museum Archipelago - April 15, 2024 15:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhile working at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History during the pandemic, Dr. Morgan Rehnberg (https://www.morganrehnberg.com) recognized the institution's limited capacity to develop new digitals exhibits with the proprietary solutions that are common in big museums. This challenge led...
104. What Large Institutions Can Learn From Small Museums
Museum Archipelago - February 26, 2024 20:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe Murney Tower Museum (https://www.murneytower.com) 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 small institutions that make up the majority of museums. With only a ...
103. How Computers Transformed Museums and Created A New Type of Professional
Museum Archipelago - November 13, 2023 17:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsComputing 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 Florida State University and his colleague Kathy Jones (https://extension.harvard.edu/faculty/katherin...
102. Copies in Museums
Museum Archipelago - July 31, 2023 17:15 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOn 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/). Three of these lions are originals — that is to say, lions carved from dolerite rock between the 10t...
101. Buzludzha Always Centered Visitor Experience. Dora Ivanova is Using Its Structure to Create a New One.
Museum Archipelago - January 23, 2023 15:45 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsSince 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 mountaintop in the middle of Bulgaria was designed to impress, to show how Bulgarian communism was the...
100. The Archipelago Museum
Museum Archipelago - November 28, 2022 16:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn 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 podcast continued to grow and my search rankings improved, I didn’t forget about the Archipelago Museum. I...
99. Museums in Video Games
Museum Archipelago - August 08, 2022 14:15 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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 console and PC games, all with original hardware and controllers. By putting video games in a museum spac...
98. At the Panama Canal Museum, Ana Elizabeth González Creates a Global Connection Point
Museum Archipelago - February 14, 2022 16:15 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhen 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 United States. This public history reflected the politics of Panama and control over the Canal. Today, G...
97. Richard Nixon Hoped to Never Say These Words about Apollo 11. In A New Exhibit, He Does.
Museum Archipelago - January 17, 2022 15:15 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAs 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 – or, even more horrible, if they made it to the moon and crashed and had no way to get back to eart...
96. Tegan Kehoe Explores American Healthcare Through 50 Museum Artifacts
Museum Archipelago - November 15, 2021 15:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsPublic 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 a triangular wound in an exhibit of 18th-century weapons could be disgusted by that same artifact wh...
95. The Museum of Technology in Helsinki, Finland Knows Even the Most Futuristic Technology Will One Day Be History
Museum Archipelago - August 31, 2021 03:45 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn 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 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Technology,_Helsinki) is the only general technological mus...
94. Jazz Dottin Guides Viewers Through Massachusetts’s Buried Black History
Museum Archipelago - June 28, 2021 12:45 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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 says it can be just as slow in New England. Each video features Dottin somewhere in her home state of ...
93. Bulgaria’s Narrow Gauge Railway Winds Through History. Ivan Pulevski Helped Turn One of Its Station Stops Into a Museum.
Museum Archipelago - June 07, 2021 13:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn 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 towns to the rest of the country. The Bulgarian King himself, Tsar Boris III, drove the first locomotive...
92. The Pleven Panorama Puts Visitors Inside the Decisive Battle of Bulgarian Liberation
Museum Archipelago - May 03, 2021 12:45 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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, which led to Bulgaria’s Liberation. The landscape of Pleven, Bulgaria depicted is exactly what you s...
92. The Pleven Panorama Museum Transports Visitors Through Time, But Not Space
Museum Archipelago - May 03, 2021 12:45 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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, which led to Bulgaria’s Liberation. The landscape of Pleven, Bulgaria depicted is exactly what you s...
91. How Fake Museums Are Used in Theme Parks with Shaelyn Amaio
Museum Archipelago - April 19, 2021 15:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMuseums 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. This detailed world-building can make the imaginary universe more real—or provide a setup to subver...
90. Civil Rights Progress Isn't Linear. The Grove Museum Interprets Tallahassee's Struggle in an Unexpected Setting.
Museum Archipelago - March 15, 2021 16:15 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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 famous owners, including Florida Governor LeRoy Collins, Executive Director John Grandage oriented ...
89. Tehmina Goskar Critically Engages with Curation, Wherever It Happens
Museum Archipelago - February 22, 2021 15:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsDr. 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 museum people all around the world. This month, Goskar officially steps back from her role at MuseumHo...
88. Jérôme Blachon Collects and Transmits Precious Memories at the Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Haute-Garonne, France
Museum Archipelago - January 25, 2021 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsDuring 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 Nazis, most specifically by deporting Jews to concentration and extermination camps. Fragmented Resist...
87. The Vitosha Bear Museum Lives in a Tiny Mountain Hut
Museum Archipelago - November 16, 2020 16:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsVitosha 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, the bear population is stable—if humans stay away and protect their habitat. To Doykin and his team, ...
86. Nashid Madyun Fights the Compression of Black History at the Meek-Eaton Black Archives
Museum Archipelago - September 21, 2020 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsHistory 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 University in Tallahassee, Florida, he was used to teaching students how to use interlibrary loan systems a...
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
Museum Archipelago - August 31, 2020 14:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsDuring 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 School, John G. Riley was a critical part of the neighborhood. In 1890, he built a two-story house fo...
84. On Richmond’s Transformed Monument Avenue, A Group of Historians Erect Rogue Historical Markers
Museum Archipelago - August 10, 2020 13:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsNear 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 a state-erected historical plaque—but these are rogue markers erected by a group of anonymous histor...
83. Chris Newell Forges The Snowshoe Path as the First Wabanaki Leader of the Abbe Museum
Museum Archipelago - July 06, 2020 13:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsChris 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 father to perform songs about their Passamaquoddy language at the Native Market and the Native American...
82. Statues and Museums
Museum Archipelago - June 15, 2020 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn 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 rolled the statue through the street and pushed it into Bristol Harbor — the same harbor where Colston’...
81. Living History in a Pandemic at Old Sturbridge Village
Museum Archipelago - June 01, 2020 13:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOld 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 historical interpreters—to immerse visitors in the world they’re recreating, knowing exactly what y...
80. British Museum Curator Sushma Jansari Shares Stories and Experiments of Decolonising Museums
Museum Archipelago - May 04, 2020 13:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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 violence of how these objects were brought to the UK to be held in a museum. So for the 2017 renovation of...
79. The Future of Hands-On Museum Exhibits with Paul Orselli
Museum Archipelago - April 20, 2020 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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 say “touch to begin” to an empty room. The normally cacophonous hands-on exhibits at the Explorato...
78. How Museums Present Public Health with Raven Forest Fruscalzo
Museum Archipelago - March 30, 2020 13:45 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMuseums 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, Content Developer at the Field Museum in Chicago and host of the Tiny Vampires Podcast points out, t...
77. Trump Asks, “Who's Next?” Lyra Monteiro Answers, Washington’s Next!
Museum Archipelago - March 16, 2020 13:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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 Revolutionary War. The statue celebrates the idea that Washington brought freedom to the country, but ...
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