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A new podcast from Hannah Hethmon, creator of We the Museum and Museums in Strange Places . Produced for the Federation of State Humanities...

I always meant to get back into doing Museum in Strange Places episodes, but producing professionally as Better Lemon Creative Audio and the...

One of the many projects I've been working on through my new production company ( Better Lemon Creative Audio ) is a podcast for the Vagina...

[A pilot for a new show I developed about living in London. I'm really proud of how it turned out, but I just don't have the time to make mo...

Donald J. Trump has been active in business and media for fifty years, but his scandal-ridden presidency has overshadowed most of his histor...

He’s the master of macabre, the man who created mystery fiction, the face on the socks and beer bottles of everyday Baltimoreans. He’s Edgar...

So much of Maryland was built on the back of enslaved Africans, yet it’s easy to avoid confronting the history of slavery in Maryland’s form...

About half of all museums in the US are in small towns in rural America. Each of these museums holds stories and objects that are worth pres...

What do Baltimore, Russian Jews, the third oldest synagogue in America, Eastern European Catholics, seances, and Harry Houdini have in commo...

S02/E07: Located in a waterfront 1860s oyster cannery in the Baltimore Harbor, The Baltimore Museum of Industry is trying to inspire and eng...

The Sandy Spring Museum describes itself as “community-activated.” They want to be a secular gathering places, where people of different bac...

BONUS content from Episode 5, "The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland." Dr. Regina Faden and I head down to Historic St. Mary's C...

BONUS content from Episode 5, "The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland." A brief stop at the active dig site of Historic St. Mary'...

In the early 17th century, 300 English settlers traveled to the new colony of Maryland in search of new opportunities and a place where they...

BONUS CONTENT from Episode 4, “Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center.” The Peale Center’s Nancy Proctor shows me the museum’s Ring of Fire,...

There’s a time machine in downtown Baltimore on Holliday Street. A time machine that will take you back to the origin of public collections...

Prince George’s County, Maryland is one of the wealthiest African American communities in the US, a suburban enclave of Black excellence jus...

Tucked among other Maryland suburbs outside Washington, D.C., the cute little town of Greenbelt has a surprisingly radical history. It was o...

The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is monument to outsider art, the creative spirit, and the search for truth. Step in...

In each season of this podcast, I explore a different country, state, or region through its museums. In Season 1, I traveled around Iceland....

Iceland has a lot of weird traditional foods, but nothing compares to fermented shark meat. The family at Bjarnarhöfn has been hunting and f...

What would it look like if Indiana Jones was into volcanoes and created a museum in a small Icelandic village? The Volcano Museum in Stykkis...

Walk into the War and Peace Museum , a small building sitting on a fjord north of Reykjavík, Iceland, and you're instantly transported into...

Bonus! I go behind-the-scenes with Locatify 's Steinunn Anna Gunnlaugsdóttir to talk about the making of Eldheimar's location-aware audio gu...

On January 23, 1973, residents of the island town Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland were woken from sleep by the sounds of a huge fissure ripping op...

No matter what happens on the Westman Islands off Iceland's south coast–invading pirates, mass Mormon exoduses, months-long volcanic eruptio...

After visiting the Icelandic Phallological Museum in Episode 16 , I still didn't get what all the hype was about. So, I sat down with anthro...

I didn't really want to visit the Icelandic Phallological Museum, so to make it more fun, I invited along my Icelandic museum friend, Sig. J...

For this episode, I'm back in Akureyri to visit The Industry Museum , a small museum formed from the enormous personal collection of one cou...

Tucked away in a narrow valley just below the town of Akureyri in North Iceland, Sverrir Hermansson's Museum of Sundry Objects is one eccent...

In this special episode about women's history in Iceland, I visit the Women's History Archive at the National and University Library of Icel...

The Icelandic Aviation Museum in Akureyri is filled with great stories: locals crashing a Nazi glider into an open grave, the president's pl...

Just off the Ring Road in the north of Iceland, a small town once known for hunting seals has breathed new life into their community with a...

The Icelandic music scene has produced a remarkable number of international stars like Sigur Rós, Björk, Kaleo, the Sugar Cubes, and Of Mons...

How do you keep history fresh at a municipal history museum, even when many people in your audience have lived in that small town their enti...

How does a contemporary art institution–places that are notoriously elitist–provide a thriving cultural center in a town's that on the perip...

Akranes is a coastal town in the southwest region of Iceland with a growing population of about 7,000. They have a unique heritage, as the a...

Hafsteinn Thor has always been interested in geology, nature, biology, and philosophy...and acting and directing...and singing and learning...

I visit the Snorrastofa , a research and cultural center at Reykholt, the farm in southwestern Iceland where the great medieval Icelandic hi...

I visit the Reykjavík City Museum to talk with Museum Director Guðbrandur Benediktsson about museum mergers, historians as presidents, the s...

In this episode, I drive thirty minutes outside of Reykjavík to visit Gljúfrasteinn , the museum–and former home–of Halldór Laxness, writer...

I descend into the historic city public toilets of downtown Reykjavík to check out one of the newer museums in town, the Icelandic Punk Muse...

I continue my conversation with Sigurlaugur Ingólfsson at the Árbær Open Air Museum in Reykjavík. We discuss what makes an open air museum v...

I visit the Árbær Open Air Museum in Reykjavík to interview the Árbær Museum Project Manager, Sigurlaugur Ingólfsson. In this episode you'll...
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