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Museums in Strange Places

I believe that museums are one of the best ways to discover a place, whether it’s your first time visiting or you’ve lived there your whole life. Join me on this adventure as I get to know the world….... Read more

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How the Seals are Saving Hvammstangi (S01/E11)

How the Seals are Saving Hvammstangi (S01/E11)

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

13 Feb 2018

28mins

Ranked #2

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A Secular Gathering Place: The Sandy Spring Museum (S02/E06)

A Secular Gathering Place: The Sandy Spring Museum (S02/E06)

The Sandy Spring Museum describes itself as “community-activated.” They want to be a secular gathering places, where peo... Read more

30 Jan 2019

29mins

Ranked #3

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Museum on Main Street: A Love Letter to Small-Town America (02/09)

Museum on Main Street: A Love Letter to Small-Town America (02/09)

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

18 Jun 2019

40mins

Ranked #4

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Baltimore’s Jewish Roots ft. Harry Houdini (S02/E08)

Baltimore’s Jewish Roots ft. Harry Houdini (S02/E08)

What do Baltimore, Russian Jews, the third oldest synagogue in America, Eastern European Catholics, seances, and Harry H... Read more

24 Apr 2019

43mins

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A Flyby of the Icelandic Aviation Museum (S01/E12)

A Flyby of the Icelandic Aviation Museum (S01/E12)

The Icelandic Aviation Museum in Akureyri is filled with great stories: locals crashing a Nazi glider into an open grave... Read more

27 Feb 2018

24mins

Ranked #6

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BONUS: 17th Century Ships are Like Classic Cars

BONUS: 17th Century Ships are Like Classic Cars

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

29 Jan 2019

5mins

Ranked #7

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Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center (S02/E04)

Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center (S02/E04)

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

27 Nov 2018

31mins

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BONUS: Baltimore's Ring of Fire

BONUS: Baltimore's Ring of Fire

BONUS CONTENT from Episode 4, “Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center.” The Peale Center’s Nancy Proctor shows me the mus... Read more

31 Dec 2018

8mins

Ranked #9

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Slavery in Maryland: Facing Our Whole History at Sotterley Plantation

Slavery in Maryland: Facing Our Whole History at Sotterley Plantation

So much of Maryland was built on the back of enslaved Africans, yet it’s easy to avoid confronting the history of slaver... Read more

1 Jul 2019

44mins

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The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland (S02/E05)

The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland (S02/E05)

In the early 17th century, 300 English settlers traveled to the new colony of Maryland in search of new opportunities an... Read more

14 Jan 2019

58mins

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Why We Work: Improving the Way Museums Work at The Baltimore Museum of Industry (S02/E07)

Why We Work: Improving the Way Museums Work at The Baltimore Museum of Industry (S02/E07)

S02/E07: Located in a waterfront 1860s oyster cannery in the Baltimore Harbor, The Baltimore Museum of Industry is tryin... Read more

28 Feb 2019

31mins

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BONUS: What We Can Learn From Dirt

BONUS: What We Can Learn From Dirt

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

28 Jan 2019

5mins

Ranked #13

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Community Driven, Community-Led: The Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center (S02/E03)

Community Driven, Community-Led: The Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center (S02/E03)

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

14 Nov 2018

37mins

Ranked #14

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A Public Housing Utopia: The Greenbelt Museum (S02/E02)

A Public Housing Utopia: The Greenbelt Museum (S02/E02)

Tucked among other Maryland suburbs outside Washington, D.C., the cute little town of Greenbelt has a surprisingly radic... Read more

14 Nov 2018

46mins

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A Temple to Intuition and Art: The American Visionary Art Museum (S02/E01)

A Temple to Intuition and Art: The American Visionary Art Museum (S02/E01)

The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is monument to outsider art, the creative spirit, and the searc... Read more

14 Nov 2018

53mins

Ranked #16

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The Shark Farm at Bjarnarhöfn (S01/E22)

The Shark Farm at Bjarnarhöfn (S01/E22)

Iceland has a lot of weird traditional foods, but nothing compares to fermented shark meat. The family at Bjarnarhöfn ha... Read more

21 Aug 2018

29mins

Ranked #17

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The Art of Volcanoes (S01/E21)

The Art of Volcanoes (S01/E21)

What would it look like if Indiana Jones was into volcanoes and created a museum in a small Icelandic village? The Volca... Read more

7 Aug 2018

25mins

Ranked #18

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Iceland in Wartime (S01/E20)

Iceland in Wartime (S01/E20)

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

25 Jul 2018

26mins

Ranked #19

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BONUS: The Making of Eldheimar's Audio Guide

BONUS: The Making of Eldheimar's Audio Guide

Bonus! I go behind-the-scenes with Locatify's Steinunn Anna Gunnlaugsdóttir to talk about the making of Eldheimar's loca... Read more

11 Jul 2018

7mins

Ranked #20

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Memorial to an Eruption (S01/E19)

Memorial to an Eruption (S01/E19)

On January 23, 1973, residents of the island town Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland were woken from sleep by the sounds of a hug... Read more

3 Jul 2018

29mins

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