What museums reveal about places (and what they have to offer travelers)

Episode 222 June 27, 2023 00:17:50
What museums reveal about places (and what they have to offer travelers)
Deviate
What museums reveal about places (and what they have to offer travelers)

Jun 27 2023 | 00:17:50

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Hosted By

Rolf Potts

Show Notes

“We do not just keep and collect things. We trouble ourselves to repurpose, create, and invent things just to carry, a little easier, those stories we cannot live without.”
—Kendra Greene

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf speaks to the directors of two very different museums — Dawn Hammat of the Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum & Boyhood Home in Abilene, Kansas, and Greg Long of Long’s Collectible Showplace & Gift Shop in Salina, Kansas (0:00); what people are drawn to in a given museum, and how a kind of nostalgia drives what people look for there (5:30); the ways all museums change and adapt over time, and how museums can surprise their visitors (12:00).

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The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel’s 2017 album Lumber.

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