Museum folks tell great stories
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The world’s largest children’s museum holds lots of stories. Here’s a fascinating conversation about many of them with Jennifer Pace Robinson, the Executive Vice President of The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. Did you know she’s helped design children’s museums all over the world? Find out...
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Direct from the world’s only superhero and comic museum, this is a heroic conversation with Allen Stewart, Director and Founder of the Hall of Heroes – Superhero Museum in Elkhart, Indiana. You’ll appreciate Allen’s insight and knowledge, along with some surprises, about the history of...
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Here’s a surprising, funny and important conversation with Louise Reilly Sacco, Permanent Acting Interim Executive Director, Museum Of Bad Art in Boston, MA, US. Website: museumofbadart.org and Facebook: Museum of Bad Art. MOBA – Museum Of Bad Art – ‘art too bad to be ignored’. The world’s only museum dedicated to...
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Today’s episode is part of Museum Mondays, a conversation with Jane Turner of the Children’s Museum of Atlanta. The title is a comment of hers about how children see the world. Jane is the Executive Director, Children’s Museum of Atlanta, 275 Centennial Olympic Park Dr.,...
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With museums facing so many challenges, and opportunities, what a great time to talk with Elizabeth Merritt. She is the Vice President for Strategic Foresight and Founding Director of the Center for the Future of Museums at the American Alliance of Museums. We’re excited with...
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This StoriesHere episode features a conversation with Jennifer Grant Warner, President and CEO of Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, Georgia. Stories range from the very different experience of being in an old growth forest, to how to pronounce Argentinosaurus (I failed). Below is a...
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This conversation is with Laura Fry, Senior Curator and Curator of Art for the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The discussion includes topics from “Did the Supreme Court really give eastern Oklahoma back to the native Americans?”…..to what kids can teach us about art, the...
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Greetings, Wayne Parker here, with a conversation about Nordic culture, which is today more important than ever. And we’ll get to that, and some intriguing stories in a moment. First, some of you may be wondering, are Nordic countries the same as Scandinavian ones? For...
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This episode is a conversation with Leslie Anderson, the Director of Collections, Exhibitions, and Programs for the spectacular National Nordic Museum in Seattle. Leslie was a Fulbright scholar and worked at the National Gallery of Denmark. In this episode she talks about the importance of...
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Some remarkable stories from this conversation with Dan’l Lewin, a leader of the computer revolution. This episode ranges from Steve Jobs to professional wrestling to art, and the story and promise of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. This episode is also featured...
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This episode is an important and fascinating conversation with Judith Margles, Director of the Oregon Jewish Museum. OJMCHE In June 2017 Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education opened the doors of our permanent home at 724 NW Davis Street, on the North Park...
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This episode is an important conversation with Kevin Cabrera, Executive Director of the Heritage Museum of Orange County. Learn more at their website at https://heritagemuseumoc.org/. Heritage Museum of Orange County is home to the H.Clay Kellogg House and John Maag Farmhouse. Heritage Museum of OC...
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Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Conversation with Sean Kelley – Senior Vice President and Director of Interpretation. This is Part 2 of our conversation. These are remarkable stories….here’s a bit of history that’s discussed in the episode: “A group of prominent Americans were horrified by...
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Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site Conversation with Sean Kelley – Senior Vice President and Director of Interpretation. This is Part 1 of our conversation, and these remarkable stories continue in Part 2. Note from Wayne Parker, Host of the StoriesHere podcast. “Many years ago while...
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We’re talking today about the very special California State Railroad Museum, and with the President and CEO of their Foundation that runs the museum, Cheryl Marcell. The Museum is stunning, in Old Sacramento along the Sacramento River, at the western end of the transcontinental railroad...
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This episode is our conversation with Braden Paynter, Program Manager for the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Learn more at sitesofconscience.org, and here is a little background… “Founded in 1999, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (“the Coalition”) is the only worldwide network...
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What history the Wilton House has seen. This episode is a conversation with Katie Watkins, Education Director of the Wilton House Museum. Visitors to the property included Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Patrick Henry. It was built 1753, was a tobacco plantation with large slave...
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Burke Museum Podcast Transcript StoriesHere Interview July 15, 2019 Julie Stein, Burke Museum and Wayne Parker, StoriesHere Wayne: Greetings. This is Wayne Parker letting you know that something remarkable is happening on the north end of the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle. ...
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Folklife Stories with John Fenn – This episode includes some surprising stories and a peek into the life of a folklorist. Those stories range from a shootout in Texas to the work of preserving Native American language and cultural heritage materials. John is the Head...
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This conversation ranges from dinosaurs, stars, drugs, personal computers, and much more…all in the Land of Enchantment. We are honored to talk with Margie Marino, Executive Director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque. Visitors of all ages rave about...
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This episode is an interview with Dana Whitelaw, Executive Director of the High Desert Museum just south of Bend, Oregon. This Museum is all about wildlife and living history, a place that immerses visitors in the unique environment of Central Oregon’s desert region. Here’s an...
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Among many stories from today’s conversation with Alice Parman is the time she was in the ring with Muhammad Ali! Just one of the many events of note from her career with museums. Now as a consultant, she helps museums all over the country with...
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Can you guess the place that’s the favorite birding spot of a world champion of birding? (spoiler alert: It’s in Oregon!). This conversation with Noah Strycker covers his adventures as a young rock-star of birding, far from the birder stereotype and a leader of the...
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The first round-the-world airplane flight started where? Bob Hart, Executive Director of the Lane County History Museum describes the original Eugene Air Park, built at the urging of Mahlon Sweet, whose name was given to today’s main airport in Eugene. Image: Eugene Airport
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Many surprising stories in this episode, from a conversation with Bob Hart, Executive Director of the Lane County History Museum. Find out more about the Museum at lchm.org.
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There are many wonderful surprises in this episode, a conversation with Dr. Tom Connolly, Director of Archeological Research at the University of Oregon. For example, the stories of the 10,000 year old intact sandals. And then learning that the archeology of Oregon is of surprising...