Latest Buzludzha Podcast Episodes
76. 400 Years Post-Mayflower, the Provincetown Museum Rethinks Its Historical Branding
Museum Archipelago - March 02, 2020 15:15 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsSometimes, a historical event is all about the branding. And the brand of Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts as the spot where the Mayflower pilgrims first disembarked 400 years ago this year is pretty strong. The branding is strong enough to override the fact that the Mayflower actually fi...
75. Museduino: Using Open Source Hardware to Power Museum Exhibits
Museum Archipelago - February 17, 2020 15:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsProprietary technology that runs museum interactives—everything from buttons to proximity sensors—tends to be expensive to purchase and maintain. But Rianne Trujillo (http://www.riannetrujillo.com), lead developer of the Cultural Technology Development Lab (http://www.cctnewmexico.org/ctdl/) at ...
74. 'Houston, We Have A Restoration' with Sandra Tetley
Museum Archipelago - January 13, 2020 17:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsEvery time an Apollo astronaut said the word Houston, they were referring not just to a city, but a specific room in that city: Mission Control. In that room on July 20, 1969, NASA engineers answered radio calls from the surface of the moon. Sitting in front of rows of green consoles, cigarettes ...
73. Sanchita Balachandran Shifts the Framework for Conservation with Untold Stories
Museum Archipelago - December 02, 2019 13:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe field of conservation was created to fight change: to prevent objects from becoming dusty, broken, or rusted. But fighting to keep cultural objects preserved creates a certain mindset — a mindset where it’s too easy to imagine objects and cultures in a state of stasis. Sanchita Balachandran, ...
72. ‘Speechless: Different by Design’ Reframes Accessibility and Communication in a Museum Context
Museum Archipelago - November 18, 2019 14:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMuseums tend to be verbal spaces: there’s usually a lot of words. Galleries open with walls of text, visitors are presented with rules of do and don'ts, and audio guides lead headphone-ed users from one piece to the next, paragraph by paragraph. But Speechless: Different by Design, a new exhibi...
71. Assessing Curatorial Work for Social Justice With Elena Gonzales
Museum Archipelago - October 28, 2019 14:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMuseums are seen as trustworthy, but what if that trust is misplaced? Chicago-based independent curator Elena Gonzales provides a solid jumping off point for thinking critically about museums in her new book, Exhibitions for Social Justice. The book is a whirlwind tour of different museums, exa...
70. The Gabrovo Museum of Humor Bolsters Its Legacy of Political Satire Post-Communism
Museum Archipelago - September 30, 2019 11:15 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsTo the extent that there was a Communist capital of humor in the last half of the 20th century, it was Gabrovo, Bulgaria. Situated in a valley of the Balkan mountains, the city prides itself on its unique brand of self-effacing humor. In 1972, the Museum House of Humor and Satire opened here, and...
69. Soviet Spacecraft in the American Heartland: The Story of the Kansas Cosmosphere
Museum Archipelago - August 26, 2019 11:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsFrom Apollo Mission Control in Houston, Texas, to the field in southeastern Russia where Yuri Gargarin finished his first orbit, there are many sites on earth that played a role in space exploration. But Hutchinson, Kansas isn’t one of them. And yet, Hutchinson—a town of 40,000 people—is home to...
68. The Akomawt Educational Initiative Forges a Snowshoe Path to Indigenize Museums
Museum Archipelago - August 05, 2019 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAkomawt is a Passamaquoddy word for the snowshoe path. At the beginning of winter, the snowshoe path is hard to find. But the more people pass along and carve out this path through the snow during the season, the easier it becomes for everyone to walk it together. endawnis Spears (https://www.ako...
67. Cité de l'Espace Celebrates Apollo Day from the Middle of the Space Race
Museum Archipelago - July 15, 2019 11:45 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsCité de l'Espace (https://en.cite-espace.com/) in Toulouse, France is a museum in the middle. It is in the middle of France’s Aerospace Valley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_Valley) and the European Space Industry. But it is also geographically in the middle of the two competing superpo...
66. From ‘Extinct Monsters’ to ‘Deep Time’: A History of the Smithsonian Fossil Hall
Museum Archipelago - June 17, 2019 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe most-visited room in the most-visited science museum in the world reopened last week after a massive, five year renovation (https://extinctmonsters.net/2019/06/14/deep-time-is-a-masterpiece/). Deep Time, as the new gallery is colloquially known, is the latest iteration of the Fossil Hall at t...
65. Sarah Nguyen Helps Fight Digital Decay with Preserve This Podcast
Museum Archipelago - June 03, 2019 12:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsEverything decays. In the past, human heritage that decayed slowly enough on stone, vellum, bamboo, silk, or paper could be put in a museum—still decaying, but at least visible. Today, human heritage is decaying on hard drives. Sarah Nguyen (https://twitter.com/snewyuen), a MLIS student at the U...
64. Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Atlantis Experience Is Part Museum, Part Themed Attraction
Museum Archipelago - May 13, 2019 12:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe Space Shuttle Atlantis Experience, which opened at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Visitor_Complex) in Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2013 brings visitors “nose to nose” with one of the three remaining Space Shuttle orbiters. The team that ...
63. Sex and Death Are on Display at The Museum of Old and New Art
Museum Archipelago - April 29, 2019 12:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe Museum of Old and New Art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art) opened in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia in 2011. With a name like that, MONA (https://mona.net.au/) could include any type of art. But looking at the collection, it’s clear that its creator, millionaire gambler ...
62. David Gough Reclaims Stewardship of Tiagarra for Aboriginal Tasmanians
Museum Archipelago - April 15, 2019 11:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe displays at the Tiagarra Cultural Centre and Museum (https://tiagarra.weebly.com/) in Devonport, Tasmania, Australia were built in 1976 (https://tiagarra.weebly.com/tiagarra-opening-and-timeline-1975---1979.html) by non-indigenous citizens and scientists without consulting Aboriginal Tasmania...
61. Jody Steele Centers the Convict Women of Tasmania's Penal Colonies at the Female Factory
Museum Archipelago - April 01, 2019 12:15 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsPenal transportation from England to Australia from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s was used to expand Britain's spheres of influence and to reduce overcrowding in British prisons. The male convict experience is well-known, but the Cascades Female Factory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascades_F...
60. Stephanie Cunningham on the Creation and Growth of Museum Hue
Museum Archipelago - March 18, 2019 10:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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 (https://amzn.to/2udBIYZ). Dispose these efforts, change has been limited. A 2018 survey by the Mellon Foundation (h...
59. Faith Displayed As Science: How Creationists Co-opted Museums with Julie Garcia
Museum Archipelago - March 04, 2019 12:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThere’s a new tool in young-Earth creationists' quest for scientific legitimacy: the museum. Over the past 25 years, dozens of so-called creation museums have been built, including the Answers in Genesis (AiG) Creation Museum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum) in Kentucky. Borrowing ...
58. Joe Galliano Fills In The UK’s Family Tree At The Queer Britain Museum
Museum Archipelago - February 11, 2019 13:30 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsJoe Galliano (https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephgalliano) came up with the idea for Queer Britain (https://twitter.com/queer_britain), the UK’s national LGBTQ+ museum, during the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalization of homosexual acts in England and Wales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
57. The Colored Conventions Project Resurrects Disremembered History With Denise Burgher, Jim Casey, Gabrielle Foreman, & Many Others
Museum Archipelago - January 28, 2019 13:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn American history most often told, the vitality of Black activism has been obscured in favor of celebrating white-lead movements. In the 19th century, an enormous network of African American activists created a series of state and national political meetings known as the Colored Conventions Mov...
56. Lana Pajdas Trains Her ‘Fun Museums’ Lens to Croatian Heritage Sites, From The Battle of Vukovar to Over-Tourism in Dubrovnik
Museum Archipelago - January 07, 2019 15:30 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsLana Pajdas (https://twitter.com/LanaPajdas) is the founder of Fun Museums (http://funmuseums.eu), a heritage and culture travel blog with a radical idea: museums are fun. It is the guiding principle of her museum marketing, consulting work (http://funmuseums.eu), and even her photographs (https:...
55. Barbara Hicks-Collins Is Turning Her Family Home Into the Bogalusa Civil Rights Museum
Museum Archipelago - December 03, 2018 12:45 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsBarbara Hicks-Collins grew up in a Civil Rights house (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_%22Bob%22_Hicks_House) in Bogalusa, Louisiana. In her family breakfast room in 1965, her father, the late Robert “Bob” Hicks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_%22Bob%22_Hicks), founded the Bogalusa cha...
54. Buzludzha Is Deteriorating. Brian Muthaliff Wants To Turn It Into A Winery.
Museum Archipelago - November 19, 2018 15:30 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsHigh in the Balkan mountains, Buzludzha monument is deteriorating. Designed to emphasize the power and modernity of the Bulgarian Communist Party (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7I65bs_HH4), Buzludzha is now at the center of a debate over how Bulgaria remembers its past (http://www.buzludzha-mo...
53. Tribal Historic Preservation Office Helps Students Map Seminole Life for the Ah-tah-thi-ki Museum
Museum Archipelago - November 05, 2018 14:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Indian Museum (https://www.ahtahthiki.com/), on the Big Cypress Reservation in the Florida Everglades, serves as the public face of the Seminole Tribe of Florida (https://www.museumarchipelago.com/16). But the museum collaborates with the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Tri...
52. Paula Santos Dives Into The "How" of Museum Work on Cultura Conscious
Museum Archipelago - October 15, 2018 11:15 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsBy day, Paula Santos (http://www.culturaconscious.com/about/) is Community Engagement Manager at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art). By night, she hosts the excellent Cultura Conscious (http://www.culturaconscious.com) podcast. O...
51. Yulina Mihaylova Presents a Moral Lesson at the Sofia Jewish Museum of History
Museum Archipelago - October 01, 2018 10:45 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe Jewish Museum of History in Sofia, Bulgaria (http://www.sofiasynagogue.com) is housed on the second floor of the Sofia Synagogue in the center of Bulgaria's capital, just steps away from an Orthodox Church, and Sofia's Mosque. This clustering of places of worship — it's hard to find another e...
50. Allison Sansone Connects Writers and Readers at the American Writers Museum
Museum Archipelago - September 17, 2018 10:30 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhen the American Writers Museum (https://americanwritersmuseum.org/) opened in Chicago in 2017, it became the first museum in the US to celebrate all genres of writing. Early in the planning phase, founder Malcolm O’Hagan made a couple of key decisions: no artifacts and no single curator. In th...
49. Deyana Kostova Centers ‘The Little Man’ in War at the Bulgarian National Museum of Military History
Museum Archipelago - September 03, 2018 15:45 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe campus of the Bulgarian National Museum of Military History in Sofia is defended on all sides by a garden of missiles and tanks. But as Director of Public Relations Deyana Kostova points out, many of the exhibits inside focus on the consequences of war rather than the tools of warfare. One ...
48. Museums Are Really Sensitive To Critique. Palace Shaw & Ariana Lee Decided They Don’t Care.
Museum Archipelago - August 20, 2018 09:45 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAriana Lee and Palace Shaw create The Whitest Cube, an excellent new museum podcast about people of color and their experiences with art institutions as artists, visitors, workers, activists, or casual admirers. The podcast interrogates the city of Boston and its museums through the lens of race...
47. Buzludzha is Deteriorating. Dora Ivanova Wants To Turn It Into A Museum.
Museum Archipelago - July 23, 2018 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsHigh in the Bulgarian mountains, Buzludzha monument is deteriorating. Commemorating early Bulgarian Marxists, it was designed to emphasize the power and modernity of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Buzludzha is now at the center of a debate over how Bulgaria remembers its past. Some people want t...
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