Featuring insightful interviews with leaders from around the industry, this is the podcast companion to Making the Museum, the short daily newsletter. Subscribe here: https://www.makingthemuseum.com. MtM is hosted and written by Jonathan Alger.
Latest Episodes
Community Engagement Misconceptions, with Nu Goteh
What if we're doing community engagement … wrong? How long should the process really take for a museum or exhibition? What’s the difference between demographics and ps...

Playful Engagement, with Ed Rodley
What if we combined immersion, emotion, storytelling — and games? We all want “engagement” … but what is engagement? How can our projects create it? What are the eleme...

Sculpting History, with Ivan Schwartz
Can a statue change American history?How do we decide who gets a statue? What happens when you realize how many people deserve a statue but never got one? What’s the d...

Secrets of Museum Display Case Design, with Stéphanie Bilodeau
How do you make a museum display case disappear?This episode is a masterclass in museum display case design. To the untrained eye, museum display cases look like what ...

Story-Based Design, with Alan Reed
Can a building tell a story?How do you design a glass wall to be ... mist? What if architecture, landscape, and exhibitions were all thought of as one thing? What chan...
