Ranked #1
How the Seals are Saving Hvammstangi (S01/E11)
How the Seals are Saving Hvammstangi (S01/E11)
Just off the Ring Road in the north of Iceland, a small town once known for hunting seals has breathed new life into the... Read more
13 Feb 2018
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28mins
Ranked #2
A Secular Gathering Place: The Sandy Spring Museum (S02/E06)
A Secular Gathering Place: The Sandy Spring Museum (S02/E06)
The Sandy Spring Museum describes itself as “community-activated.” They want to be a secular gathering places, where peo... Read more
30 Jan 2019
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29mins
Ranked #3
Museum on Main Street: A Love Letter to Small-Town America (02/09)
Museum on Main Street: A Love Letter to Small-Town America (02/09)
About half of all museums in the US are in small towns in rural America. Each of these museums holds stories and objects... Read more
18 Jun 2019
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40mins
Ranked #4
Baltimore’s Jewish Roots ft. Harry Houdini (S02/E08)
Baltimore’s Jewish Roots ft. Harry Houdini (S02/E08)
What do Baltimore, Russian Jews, the third oldest synagogue in America, Eastern European Catholics, seances, and Harry H... Read more
24 Apr 2019
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43mins
Ranked #5
A Flyby of the Icelandic Aviation Museum (S01/E12)
A Flyby of the Icelandic Aviation Museum (S01/E12)
The Icelandic Aviation Museum in Akureyri is filled with great stories: locals crashing a Nazi glider into an open grave... Read more
27 Feb 2018
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24mins
Ranked #6
BONUS: 17th Century Ships are Like Classic Cars
BONUS: 17th Century Ships are Like Classic Cars
BONUS content from Episode 5, "The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland." Dr. Regina Faden and I head down to ... Read more
29 Jan 2019
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5mins
Ranked #7
Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center (S02/E04)
Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center (S02/E04)
There’s a time machine in downtown Baltimore on Holliday Street. A time machine that will take you back to the origin of... Read more
27 Nov 2018
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31mins
Ranked #8
BONUS: Baltimore's Ring of Fire
BONUS: Baltimore's Ring of Fire
BONUS CONTENT from Episode 4, “Museum Time Machine: The Peale Center.” The Peale Center’s Nancy Proctor shows me the mus... Read more
31 Dec 2018
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8mins
Ranked #9
Slavery in Maryland: Facing Our Whole History at Sotterley Plantation
Slavery in Maryland: Facing Our Whole History at Sotterley Plantation
So much of Maryland was built on the back of enslaved Africans, yet it’s easy to avoid confronting the history of slaver... Read more
1 Jul 2019
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44mins
Ranked #10
The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland (S02/E05)
The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland (S02/E05)
In the early 17th century, 300 English settlers traveled to the new colony of Maryland in search of new opportunities an... Read more
14 Jan 2019
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58mins
Ranked #11
Why We Work: Improving the Way Museums Work at The Baltimore Museum of Industry (S02/E07)
Why We Work: Improving the Way Museums Work at The Baltimore Museum of Industry (S02/E07)
S02/E07: Located in a waterfront 1860s oyster cannery in the Baltimore Harbor, The Baltimore Museum of Industry is tryin... Read more
28 Feb 2019
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31mins
Ranked #12
BONUS: What We Can Learn From Dirt
BONUS: What We Can Learn From Dirt
BONUS content from Episode 5, "The Lost City: Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland." A brief stop at the active dig site ... Read more
28 Jan 2019
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5mins
Ranked #13
Community Driven, Community-Led: The Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center (S02/E03)
Community Driven, Community-Led: The Prince George’s African American Museum and Cultural Center (S02/E03)
Prince George’s County, Maryland is one of the wealthiest African American communities in the US, a suburban enclave of ... Read more
14 Nov 2018
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37mins
Ranked #14
A Public Housing Utopia: The Greenbelt Museum (S02/E02)
A Public Housing Utopia: The Greenbelt Museum (S02/E02)
Tucked among other Maryland suburbs outside Washington, D.C., the cute little town of Greenbelt has a surprisingly radic... Read more
14 Nov 2018
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46mins
Ranked #15
A Temple to Intuition and Art: The American Visionary Art Museum (S02/E01)
A Temple to Intuition and Art: The American Visionary Art Museum (S02/E01)
The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland is monument to outsider art, the creative spirit, and the searc... Read more
14 Nov 2018
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53mins
Ranked #16
The Shark Farm at Bjarnarhöfn (S01/E22)
The Shark Farm at Bjarnarhöfn (S01/E22)
Iceland has a lot of weird traditional foods, but nothing compares to fermented shark meat. The family at Bjarnarhöfn ha... Read more
21 Aug 2018
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29mins
Ranked #17
The Art of Volcanoes (S01/E21)
The Art of Volcanoes (S01/E21)
What would it look like if Indiana Jones was into volcanoes and created a museum in a small Icelandic village? The Volca... Read more
7 Aug 2018
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25mins
Ranked #18
Iceland in Wartime (S01/E20)
Iceland in Wartime (S01/E20)
Walk into the War and Peace Museum, a small building sitting on a fjord north of Reykjavík, Iceland, and you're instantl... Read more
25 Jul 2018
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26mins
Ranked #19
BONUS: The Making of Eldheimar's Audio Guide
BONUS: The Making of Eldheimar's Audio Guide
Bonus! I go behind-the-scenes with Locatify's Steinunn Anna Gunnlaugsdóttir to talk about the making of Eldheimar's loca... Read more
11 Jul 2018
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7mins
Ranked #20
Memorial to an Eruption (S01/E19)
Memorial to an Eruption (S01/E19)
On January 23, 1973, residents of the island town Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland were woken from sleep by the sounds of a hug... Read more
3 Jul 2018
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29mins