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Call 'Em Like Museum is a weekly podcast exploring how museums really work, and why we love them. Host Eric Johnson talks with museum directors, curators, experts, and passionate fans about what drives them, from homegrown passion projects to world-famous institutions. Each episode digs into museum curation, exhibit design, and the visitor experience — plus the essential question: What's actually worth buying in the gift shop? Season One spotlights museums in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Walt Disney Family Museum, the deYoung Museum, and the USS Hornet Museum.
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This episode was hosted, produced, and edited by Eric Johnson from LightningPod: lightningpod.fm
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What do museums mean to you? A museum to me is a place that exists to teach you something. The scholarly answer is that it was a temple of the muses that inspire and guide knowledge and wisdom. It creates a space for people to come together, and then everyone comes out of this with their own sense of meaning.
And you maybe go and talk about it later: "Oh, that was so cool. I really liked…" you know, whatever. That is a service that museums provide far beyond the most obvious mandate. A museum is a story that you may not have known otherwise, that is an opportunity to grow and learn more about the world around you.
I really enjoy the small, kind of homegrown, little municipal museums that are in an old house that really get overlooked. It is one of those spaces where you realize just how temporary life is. Temporary as it all is, those moments matter, just like people matter. Museums take me back in time or to other parts of the country or the world, or even the cosmos.
It's a place we go where we expect to be entertained, educated, see cool stuff that we might not see anywhere else, and then have a nice meal or coffee afterwards. And there's always a gift shop. This is Call 'Em Like Museum, a podcast about how museums work and why we love them. Season One begins Tuesday, August 25th.
