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On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as the flames engulfed the museum's castle. Rare objects and valuable paintings were destroyed. The flames at the Smithsonian were not the first—and certainly would not be the last—disaster to upend a museum in the United States. The Museum explores the concepts of "crisis" as it relates to museums, and how these historic institutions have dealt with challenges ranging from depression and war to pandemic and philosophical uncertainty.

World War II was fought on battlefields all over the globe. But it was also fought in the shadows—in covert operations that didn't make the headlines, both at home and overseas. The National WWII Museum presents Secret WWII: Spies & Special Ops, a new podcast series exploring wartime tales of espionage and intrigue. Hosted by Museum Senior Historian Bradley W. Hart, PhD, tune in to hear from expert historians and listen to the stories of the people who were there to uncover the secret World War II.

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They provide a portrait of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. Each of the stories offers glimpses into the lives of ordinary Dubliners, and together they paint a portrait of a nation. Ireland was at a crossroads of history and culture at that time, pursuing a search for national identity and purpose.

Podcast by the Saratoga, Wyoming History Museum. Featuring history related to the Platte Valley, Carbon County, and Wyoming.

Welcome to the LeFleur Museum District Podcast, where we explore how our museums come together to spark curiosity, strengthen community, and make a lasting impact on education and tourism in Jackson, Mississippi. This podcast is sponsored in part by Visit Jackson.

The sea is the largest museum on earth, with more than a million lost ships resting in its depths. Those shipwrecks date back thousands of years, some from civilizations long vanished, others from more recent history. Some are famous, others obscure and unremembered but each has a story to tell. In The Great Museum of the Sea, archaeologist, museum director, television host, journalist, and award-winning author James Delgado takes the listener on a personal tour of the world's wrecks, including many of the more than a hundred lost ships he has personally discovered and investigated.

What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling historic injustice? What if it presents us not with a carefully ordered cross section of history but is instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot swarming with volatile and errant spirits? When artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a landslide as staff old and new brought forth testimonies of their inexplicable supernatural encounters.

This collection contains: Twelve Years a Slave, Up from Slavery, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains), The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, and many more.

Museumsgeschichte erkunden: Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Geschichte des Deutschen Museums – informativ und voller überraschender Einblicke. Ein Spaziergang für die Ohren in acht Stationen. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Expertinnen erzählen von der Baugeschichte, dem Brand im Bergwerk, warum Beton "wie Blätterteig" sein kann, dem Aufstieg der Nazis und warum die Bibliothek nach dem Krieg eine internationale Universität war. Gefördert vom Freundes- und Förderkreis Deutsches Museum e.V.

The Gunmen of the American Wild West Collection brings to life the history of the frontier west of the Mississippi in the latter parts of the 19th century. The gunmen ranged from lawmen to cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. Most of the outlaws in the Old West preyed on banks, trains, and stagecoaches. Although spread thin, the law was present, usually on the level of deputy US marshal, county sheriff, and the town marshal or constable.

Neil MacGregor, former director of the National Gallery and the British Museum, knows the importance of public museums. In The Museums That Make Us, he takes us around the country to visit twenty local museums and to talk to their curators, staff and local figures about the most prized objects in their collections. Often a child's first experience of valuable objects and historical belongings, these regional spaces can be a wonderful way to recognise local pride and shine a light on buried history.

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well-publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate the legacy of Nazi looting in the art world today. But what happened to looted art that was never returned to its rightful owners?

As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species.

Audio projects created by the Canadian War Museum. We are Canada’s national museum of military history and one of the world’s most respected museums for the study and understanding of armed conflict. Visit us at warmuseum.ca.

Museum Monkey has a podcast.The YouTube channel brings you facts that will make your eyes pop out.Dedicated to science, cooking, engineering and history, our listeners will love some of the funny jokes (including the Thomas Crapper one)and so will your brain!( Another good joke.)Eñnnnjoy

The curators at the University of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum have been recording bite-sized tales of the wonderful, and sometimes unexpected, life of a museum. We can’t wait to share them with you! Museum Secrets is produced and presented by Lucie Dawkins.

Her kan du lære om tema innenfor skipsfart, fiskeri-, kyst,- og krigshistorie samt hanseatene historie. Museum Vest-Podden produseres av Museum Vest, som består av avdelingene Bergens Sjøfartsmuseum, Norges Fiskerimuseum, Det Hanseatiske Museum og Schøtstuene, Nordsjøfartmuseet, Kystmuseet i Øygarden, Herdla Museum og Bjørn West-museet. Museum Vest podden har motatt økonomisk støtte fra Bergen kommune. Museum Vest har flere avdelinger. Bård Gram Økland er vert for podkasten, og den er produsert av Ådne Sørheim Søhoel. Musikk ved Nikolai H. Berge.

Interviews with those who flew the iconic Avro aircraft and those who worked on them. The Avro Heritage Museum preserves for future generations the legacy of British aviation pioneer Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe and the aircraft manufacturing company he founded, A.V. Roe and Co (Avro). Sited on the former Woodford Aerodrome, the Museum's mission is to keep alive North West England's proud aviation history.

Experience exhibits from an insider's perspective! Tour our galleries in the company of guest curators, artists, and historians as they provide a behind-the-scenes look at featured exhibitions.

In diesem Podcast werfen wir einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Museums, nehmen einzelne Themen genauer unter die Lupe oder entdecken das Museum aus neuen Blickwinkeln. So macht Geschichte Freude!