Latest Buzludzha Podcast Episodes
46. Vessela Gercheva Directs Playful Exhibits at Bulgaria’s First Children’s Museum
Museum Archipelago - July 09, 2018 11:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThere were no children’s museums in the Balkans before Muzeiko opened in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2015. Days before Muzeiko’s historic opening, I interviewed Vessela Gercheva, the museum’s Programs and Exhibits Director. Gercheva talked about the challenges of opening the museum, not the least of whic...
45. Margaret Middleton Designs Museum Exhibits for All Ages
Museum Archipelago - June 25, 2018 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsMargaret Middleton is an independent exhibit designer and museum consultant based in Providence, RI, USA. Middleton recently completed the design of the children's exhibits at the Discovery Museum in Acton, MA, USA. Driven by a background in industrial design and queer activism, Middleton is pas...
44. Vassil Makarinov Presents Technology and History at the Bulgarian Polytechnical Museum
Museum Archipelago - June 11, 2018 11:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe Bulgarian National Polytechnical Museum is a science museum that also tells the story of Bulgarian and world history. The building itself once housed a museum of a Bulgarian communist leader, and the technical artifacts on display, from simple machines to Bulgarian-made computers from the 19...
43. Blake Bradford Aims To Increase Number of Black Museum Professionals with Lincoln University Program
Museum Archipelago - May 28, 2018 10:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIn episode 36 of this podcast, Bill Bradberry, Chair of the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Area Commission, described encountering the glaring lack of cultural diversity within and around the museum industry, particularly in leadership. He cited the new Museum Studies program at Linc...
42. Freddi Williams Evans and Luther Gray Are Erecting Historic Markers on the Slave Trade in New Orleans
Museum Archipelago - May 14, 2018 12:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsUntil a few weeks ago, one of the only places in downtown New Orleans acknowledging the city’s slave-trading past was a marker in Congo Square, erected in 1997. The New Orleans Committee to Erect Historic Markers on the Slave Trade has since put up two new markers, one on the transatlantic slave...
41. 16,000 Years at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter with David Scofield
Museum Archipelago - April 30, 2018 12:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsView Shownotes As the oldest site of human habitation in North America, the Meadowcroft Rockshelter has a challenge: how to convey its mind-boggling timescale, spanning from prehistory to the 19th century? David Scofield, director of the Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village, describes ho...
40. Conserving Digital Photos with Jenny Mathiasson and Kloe Rumsey
Museum Archipelago - April 16, 2018 11:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsView Shownotes Jenny Mathiasson and Kloe Rumsey started The C Word: The Conservators’ Podcast to broadcast their friendly and professional discussions about conservation. Each episode features a different hot topic in the conservation world, and the podcast stands out for its hosts willingness t...
39. Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum with James Delbourgo
Museum Archipelago - April 02, 2018 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsOver the course of his long life, Hans Sloane collected tens of thousands of items which became the basis for what is today the British Museum. Funded in large part by his marriage into the enslaving plantocracy of Jamaica and the Atlantic slave trade, and aided by Britain’s rising colonial powe...
38. Conservation in the 21st Century with Sanchita Balachandran
Museum Archipelago - March 19, 2018 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsImage: Sanchita Balachandran. Photo Credit: James Rensselaer. 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. From her 2016 talk at the America...
37. The National Public Housing Museum with Robert J. Smith III
Museum Archipelago - March 05, 2018 10:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIt would have been much easier to build the National Public Housing Museum from scratch instead of retrofitting it in the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes, the first public housing development in Chicago. But doing so would have undermined one of the core principles of the museum:...
36. The Underground Railroad in Niagara Falls with Bill Bradberry
Museum Archipelago - February 19, 2018 11:45 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsBill 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.” With Canada just across ...
35. Cartoons from the Museum Floor with Attendants View
Museum Archipelago - February 05, 2018 13:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAttendants View is a blog of hand-drawn, single page cartoons that capture a slice of a museum attendant’s day. The comics show confused visitors, tourists asking the same questions over and over again, and museum board members flouting the rules. The writer and illustrator behind Attendants Vi...
34. Erotic Heritage Museum with Dr. Victoria Hartmann
Museum Archipelago - January 22, 2018 12:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsThe 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. Dr. Hartmann thinks museums too...
33. Icelandic Museums with Hannah Hethmon
Museum Archipelago - January 08, 2018 12:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsIceland 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. Hannah Hethmon, an American museum professional and Fulbright Fellow living in Reykjavík, was interested in this abu...
32. What a Museum on the Moon Might Look Like With Michelle Hanlon
Museum Archipelago - December 25, 2017 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsImage: The Lower Half of the Apollo 17 Lunar Lander in a debris field in the Taurus–Littrow valley. This view was captured minutes after the last humans left the moon and it would look exactly the same today. What humans left behind on the moon are part of our human heritage, on par with Laetoli...
31. Habemus with Romina Frontini & Christian Díaz
Museum Archipelago - December 11, 2017 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsHabemus is a Spanish-language radio program about museum topics broadcasting out of Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Every Friday from 9 to 11pm, team members interview museum people and promote an ideology of fun and hacks in museums. The title is a play on words — linking the Spanish word “museos” wi...
30. Visitors of Color with Dr. Porchia Moore
Museum Archipelago - November 06, 2017 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsDr. Porchia Moore, Inclusion Catalyst at the Columbia Museum of Art, started Visitors of Color with nikhil trivedi in 2015. Visitors of Color is a Tumblr project that documents the perspectives and experiences of marginalized people in museums. It is a record of what the museum experience can be...
29. A Digital Approach to Museum Maps
Museum Archipelago - October 23, 2017 14:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsImage: An example of a digital mapping tool, Mapbox Studio Classic. 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 humani...
28. Leaving the Museum Field with Marieke Van Damme
Museum Archipelago - October 09, 2017 13:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsExecutive Director of the Cambridge Historical Society Marieke Van Damme affectionately calls anyone working in the museum field “Museum People.” On her excellent podcast of the same name, she interviews museum people every episode. Many museum people are museum workers. In 2016, together with ...
27. Yo, Museum Professionals
Museum Archipelago - September 11, 2017 22:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsYo, museum professionals: exhibitions aimed at kids should not include interactive screens in galleries. You're undermining your mission! — Jody Rosen (@jodyrosen) September 4, 2017 Notably missing from discussions like these is a willingness to defend the interactive screen. The defense is si...
26. Arab American National Museum with Devon Akmon
Museum Archipelago - August 28, 2017 13:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsImage: Arab American National Museum photo by knightfoundation CC BY-SA 2.0. Before the Arab American National Museum opened in Dearborn, MI in 2005, there wasn’t a singular museum telling the Arab American story. The museum defines the Arab World as 22 countries in the Middle East and North Af...
25. Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia, Bulgaria
Museum Archipelago - July 17, 2017 15:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsImage: An abundance of Lenins at the Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia, Bulgaria After the fall of communism in Bulgaria in 1989, statues of Bulgarian communist leaders, idealized revolutionary workers, and Lenins were taken down all over the county. Some of these statues are now in the Museum of ...
25. The Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia, Bulgaria is Figuring Out What to Do With All the Lenins
Museum Archipelago - July 17, 2017 15:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsAfter the fall of communism in Bulgaria in 1989, statues of Bulgarian communist leaders, idealized revolutionary workers, and Lenins were taken down all over the county. Some of these statues are now in the Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia. Bulgaria doesn’t have a history museum that explores its...
24. College Hill and the International Slave Trade Walking Tour with Elon Cook
Museum Archipelago - July 03, 2017 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsElon Cook created the College Hill and the International Slave Trade Walking Tour in Providence after researching the crucial and massive role that Rhode Island played in the history of slavery. The walking tour covers an an area of about one square mile in and around Brown University. Here, wea...
23. Museum-Metro Station Hybrids
Museum Archipelago - June 05, 2017 14:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsImage: An early rendering of the Serdika station in Sofia, Bulgaria, displaying Roman ruins on the first level underneath the street. During the planning stages for the Sofia Metro in Bulgaria, ruins of an old Roman fortress and city wall were discovered at the network’s proposed Serdika station....
22. Guide Training at Akagera National Park with Lisa Brochu
Museum Archipelago - May 15, 2017 20:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsI met interpretive planner Lisa Brochu in Akagara National Park in Rwanda. I was there as a tourist, and she was there as a guide trainer. Lisa’s teaching stresses that the best way to communicate with the visiting public is by having strong, central theme. At Akagara National Park, park-employ...
21. Apollo 11 Historic Site
Museum Archipelago - May 01, 2017 15:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsEven before I started working in the museum field, I was thinking about the future museum at the Apollo 11 landing site at Tranquility Base on the moon. The site is special. No matter how the human experiment turns out, the site will represent the first step off earth. Now Tranquility Base is a ...
20. Universal Design at the White House Visitor Center with Sherril York
Museum Archipelago - April 18, 2017 15:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsDr. Sherril York, executive director of the National Center on Accessibility, was part of the team that renovated the White House Visitor Center in 2012. Design priorities included making the experience accessible for all visitors. The new visitor center features raised line floor plans, tacti...
19. Remembering the Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre
Museum Archipelago - April 03, 2017 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhen the Kigali Genocide Memorial was first built in 1999, it was a burial site outside the Rwandan capitol city for thousands of victims of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsi. Rwandans came to visit the final resting place of friends and family. Today, the city has expanded to envelop ...
19. Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre with Honoré Gatera
Museum Archipelago - April 03, 2017 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 92 ratingsWhen the Kigali Genocide Memorial was first built in 1999, it was a burial site outside the Rwandan capitol city for thousands of victims of the 1994 genocide. Rwandans came to visit the final resting place of friends and family. Today, the city has expanded to envelop the memorial, which has al...
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