Karen’s Mashups-Show 11-Museums
In this show, we’re listening to podcasts from museums. Many museums are offering audio and video podcasts, covering topics including art, history, science, and more.
Museum podcasts are a great way to get ready for a field trip. Some include listening guides or other classroom activities that can be used with the podcast. Even if you aren’t visiting, they provide a wonderful multimedia supplement for your classroom lessons and a great way to bring virtual field trips to life. Some schools even have their students produce their own podcasts about museums or historical sites they’ve visited.
Loading...The MuseumPods portal is a great place to start looking for museum podcasts.
Featured in this show are:
The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, Prototype Online podcast – Segment from interview with Dr. Robert Jarvik
This twice-monthly podcast highlights a variety of fascinating inventions and inventors. The Lemelson Center has prepared a Teacher Listening Guide for its podcasts, which will also find a home at a new education site set to debut soon from the National Museum of American History. The Smithsonian also publishes many other podcasts.
Gordon Current Science & Technology Center at the Museum of Science, Boston – Excerpt from show on dolphin communications
This weekly show covers a wide variety of science and technology topics, including the brain, biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology, A.I., robotics, and more. The museum offers audio and video podcasts and a long list of back episodes.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Acoustiguide, Inc. – Intro to Red Studio Teen podcast, followed by a discussion of Gunter Uecker’s “White Field”
This is an amazing podcast produced by MoMA’s Youth Advisory Council (YAC), content for teens, by teens. MoMA has a series of six different programs to share. This podcast (as well as others by MoMA) is divided into segments for each piece of art. I love the idea of using these in the classroom by showing a piece of art, discussing it as a group, and then listening to the podcast while looking at the piece.
Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Adler Night and Day podcast – Excerpt from Adler Night for early August, 2007
This bi-weekly podcast is from the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. Adler Day covers recent solar weather and forecasted activity; Adler Night discussed current events in the night sky. New episodes include an enhanced podcast with images.
Transition sound – Medieval fanfare by tobyk
Here are some other museum podcasts that we couldn’t fit in this episode:
Clinton Presidential Library – Search iTunes for “Clinton library” to find these fascinating audio guides recorded by President Clinton.
Museum of African Diaspora – Includes a collection of slave narratives and first person narratives; downloadable through iTunes; transcripts included on the web site.
National Gallery podcast – From London, several podcasts on a variety of works of art
Arizona State Museum podcast – Includes interviews about masks of Mexico; enhanced versions
