Museums in Strange Places
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About the show
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….one museum as a time.
I’m your host, Hannah Hethmon, and in each episode I visit a different museum to discover its stories, discuss challenges and triumphs with fascinating museum professionals (and volunteers), and get to know each season’s country, state, or region through it museums.
Interested in starting a podcast at your organization? Check out my new book, "Your Museum Needs a Podcast: A Step by Step Guide to Podcast on a Budget for Museums, History Organizations, and Cultural Nonprofits," available on Amazon.
PLEASE NOTE: This show is still active! I'm just very busy producing professionally and don't have time to do new episodes very often.
What fans say about the podcast
Takes You There!
What a gem of a podcast! The host really takes you with her on the visits and you feel as though you can look up and see the places and experience the locations. The cohosts/ interviewees are really knowledgable as well so it's a great listen.
— Karbar1100 (on Apple Podcasts)
Thoroughly Researched and Always Compelling
Thoroughly researched and always compelling, “Museums in Strange Places” has brought dozens of important but little-known cultural sites to global attention. Hethmon knows the tools of her trade as intimately as the needs of both museums and their audiences, and her podcast is a perfect meeting ground for both – as well as a cracking good listen!
— Nancy Proctor
Wonderful podcast!
Compelling, quirky, and masterful. Hannah has a talent for coaxing amazing stories from her interviewees. VERY highly recommended!
— CitizenSissy (on Apple Podcasts)About the Host
Hannah Hethmon
Creator and Host
Hannah Hethmon is a consultant and producer specializing in all things podcasting for museums, history organizations, and cultural nonprofits. She is the creator and host of two shows: Museums in Strange Places and London is Ok I Guess. She is the author of the book Your Museum Needs a Podcast: A Step-By-Step Guide to Podcasting on a Budget for Museums, History Organizations, and Cultural Nonprofits. Her production and consulting work includes shows and projects for the UK National Archives, the Smithsonian Institution, the Science History Institute, the Peale Center, and the Vagina Museum. Hannah holds an MA in Viking and Medieval Norse Studies from the University of Iceland and is a Fulbright alumni. Originally from the greater Washington, D.C. area, she has lived in Iceland, Denmark, and Poland and currently lives in London….which is ok she says.
Start with these episodes
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 public collections of art, …
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 has been hunting and fermenting shark meat for nearly 400 years, …
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 radical history. It was one of three “green towns” built under the New …
A Museum of Ordinary Things (S01/E14)
Tucked away in a narrow valley just below the town of Akureyri in North Iceland, Sverrir Hermansson's Museum of Sundry Objects is one eccentric man's …
Finding Iceland's Hidden Women (S01/E13)
In this special episode about women's history in Iceland, I visit the Women's History Archive at the National and University Library of Iceland to …
How you can listen to this podcast
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