Museums in Strange Places
Episodes
Trailer: Humanities =
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A new podcast from Hannah Hethmon, creator of We the Museum and Museums in Strange Places. Produced for the Federation of State Humanities Councils, H...
Trailer: We the Museum
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I always meant to get back into doing Museum in Strange Places episodes, but producing professionally as Better Lemon Creative Audio and the pandemic ...
BONUS: The Vagina Museum Podcast Trailer
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Museum in Lo...
BONUS: London is Ok I Guess
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
[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 more episode...
The (Pop-Up) Anti-Trump Museum of Atlantic City
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Donald J. Trump has been active in business and media for fifty years, but his scandal-ridden presidency has overshadowed most of his history. Levi Fo...
Poe Belongs to Baltimore, Baltimore to Poe
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 Allan...
Slavery in Maryland: Facing Our Whole History at Sotterley Plantation
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 former pla...
Museum on Main Street: A Love Letter to Small-Town America (02/09)
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 preserving and...
Baltimore’s Jewish Roots ft. Harry Houdini (S02/E08)
24 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What do Baltimore, Russian Jews, the third oldest synagogue in America, Eastern European Catholics, seances, and Harry Houdini have in common? You’l...
Why We Work: Improving the Way Museums Work at The Baltimore Museum of Industry (S02/E07)
28 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
S02/E07: Located in a waterfront 1860s oyster cannery in the Baltimore Harbor, The Baltimore Museum of Industry is trying to inspire and engage their ...
A Secular Gathering Place: The Sandy Spring Museum (S02/E06)
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Sandy Spring Museum describes itself as “community-activated.” They want to be a secular gathering places, where people of different backgroun...
BONUS: 17th Century Ships are Like Classic Cars
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 City's ...
BONUS: What We Can Learn From Dirt
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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's City...
The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland (S02/E05)
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 could pra...
BONUS: Baltimore's Ring of Fire
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, ex...
Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center (S02/E04)
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Community Driven, Community-Led: The Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center (S02/E03)
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Prince George’s County, Maryland is one of the wealthiest African American communities in the US, a suburban enclave of Black excellence just outsid...
A Public Housing Utopia: The Greenbelt Museum (S02/E02)
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tucked among other Maryland suburbs outside Washington, D.C., the cute little town of Greenbelt has a surprisingly radical history. It was one of thre...
A Temple to Intuition and Art: The American Visionary Art Museum (S02/E01)
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is monument to outsider art, the creative spirit, and the search for truth. Step inside this ...
Season 2: Museums of Maryland (TRAILER)
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In each season of this podcast, I explore a different country, state, or region through its museums. In Season 1, I traveled around Iceland. For seas...
The Shark Farm at Bjarnarhöfn (S01/E22)
21 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Iceland has a lot of weird traditional foods, but nothing compares to fermented shark meat. The family at Bjarnarhöfn has been hunting and fermenting...
The Art of Volcanoes (S01/E21)
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What would it look like if Indiana Jones was into volcanoes and created a museum in a small Icelandic village? The Volcano Museum in Stykkishólmur di...
Iceland in Wartime (S01/E20)
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Walk into the War and Peace Museum, a small building sitting on a fjord north of Reykjavík, Iceland, and you're instantly transported into another er...
BONUS: The Making of Eldheimar's Audio Guide
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bonus! I go behind-the-scenes with Locatify's Steinunn Anna Gunnlaugsdóttir to talk about the making of Eldheimar's location-aware audio guide app (E...
Memorial to an Eruption (S01/E19)
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On January 23, 1973, residents of the island town Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland were woken from sleep by the sounds of a huge fissure ripping open the ear...
We Always Come Back to Home Island (S01/E18)
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
No matter what happens on the Westman Islands off Iceland's south coast–invading pirates, mass Mormon exoduses, months-long volcanic eruptions, myst...
The Penis Museum, Part II ft. John Bodinger de Uriarte (S01/E17)
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 anthropology pro...
The Penis Museum, Part I (S01/E16)
29 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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. Join us as ...
Industry and Nostalgia in Akureyri, Iceland (S01/E15)
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode, I'm back in Akureyri to visit The Industry Museum, a small museum formed from the enormous personal collection of one couple, who wa...
A Museum of Ordinary Things (S01/E14)
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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)
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 spe...
A Flyby of the Icelandic Aviation Museum (S01/E12)
27 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Icelandic Aviation Museum in Akureyri is filled with great stories: locals crashing a Nazi glider into an open grave, the president's plane enlist...
How the Seals are Saving Hvammstangi (S01/E11)
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 much more ...
Beatle-Town, Iceland: A Visit to the Icelandic Museum of Rock 'n' Roll (S01/E10)
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Icelandic music scene has produced a remarkable number of international stars like Sigur Rós, Björk, Kaleo, the Sugar Cubes, and Of Monsters and...
Built with Fish: History Lessons at the Museum of Hafnarfjörður (S01/E09)
24 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 entire lives? ...
Community-Centered Contemporary Art in the Heart of Hafnarfjörður (S01/E08)
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How does a contemporary art institution–places that are notoriously elitist–provide a thriving cultural center in a town's that on the periphery o...
Celtic Connections on the Icelandic Coast: A Visit to the Akranes Folk Museum (S01/E07)
10 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 area was se...
A Family, a Mineral Collection, and a Museum in a Gas Station (S01/E06)
18 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Hafsteinn Thor has always been interested in geology, nature, biology, and philosophy...and acting and directing...and singing and learning new instru...
Keeping the Legacy of a Medieval Legend Alive at Snorrastofa (S01/E05)
04 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I visit the Snorrastofa, a research and cultural center at Reykholt, the farm in southwestern Iceland where the great medieval Icelandic historian and...
The Future of History at the Reykjavík City Museum (S01/E04)
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I visit the Reykjavík City Museum to talk with Museum Director Guðbrandur Benediktsson about museum mergers, historians as presidents, the state of ...
A Writer's Home: Gljúfrasteinn-Laxness Museum (S01/E03)
06 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I drive thirty minutes outside of Reykjavík to visit Gljúfrasteinn, the museum–and former home–of Halldór Laxness, writer and...
The Icelandic Punk Museum in Reykjavík, Iceland (S01/E02)
30 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I descend into the historic city public toilets of downtown Reykjavík to check out one of the newer museums in town, the Icelandic Punk Museum. You k...
Bonus Ep: What Makes an Open Air Museum Memorable?
22 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I continue my conversation with Sigurlaugur Ingólfsson at the Árbær Open Air Museum in Reykjavík. We discuss what makes an open air museum visit m...
Árbær Open Air Museum in Reykjavík, Iceland
16 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
I visit the Árbær Open Air Museum in Reykjavík to interview the Árbær Museum Project Manager, Sigurlaugur Ingólfsson. In this episode you'll lea...