Experiences in Museum Studies Field

Carmen is the name and museums and history is the game!!

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All jokes aside history and how the museum's display history has always been my passion. Up to now, I have always been to museums as a visitor or the end consumer. In this capacity, museums have always lived to my expectations. I love how museums take history and present it in a way that will pique the visitor's interest. This summer I had the wonderful chance to visit the Cleveland Museum of Art, the interpretations that they give some of their art pieces is crucial! The pictures show one of my favorite artworks and the interpretation that the museum gave. My siblings and I agreed that this was very well done and that the museum served one of its main purposes to educated, especial on controversial and prevalent topics. 

  One day I hope to make educational and interesting exhibitions, all be it scandalous as well to really make the visitor have a keepsake from the experience!! 

New Semester Update!

Over the winter break, I took admittedly more of a vacation from my thesis than I was planning on, but now the new semester has started and I've jumped right back into work!

After completing a first draft, I feel much more confident in the direction that my thesis is going, as I've moved on from ideas to more hard data. In writing my proposal I focused a lot on the history and theory of public history and podcasting, and now I have transitioned to focusing on my case studies, BackStory Radio and Dan Carlin's Hardcore History.

In researching and investigating these podcasts, I was fortunate enough to be able to conduct an interview with Dr. Nathan Connolly, one of the four main hosts of backstory radio. Being able to talk directly with someone in the podcasting realm, and even better on one of my case studies, will be an invaluable resource going forward and I am very excited to incorporate it into my work.

Going forward, I will be diving further into my research of these two podcasts and will work to tie together my initial research with the data I am collecting now.