143 The Stories That Collection Museums Hold

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Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

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🗓️ 8 August 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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We talk about the significance of collection museums with Emily Grasile, Chief Curiosity Correspondent at the Field Museum; Shannon Bennett, Chief of Science at the California Academy of Sciences; and Jack Dumbacher, chairman and curator of the California Academy of Science’s Department of Ornithology and Mammalogy.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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0:00.0	It's Friday, July 29th, 2016, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indrae Viscontas.
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0:43.8	This isn't going to come as much of a shock to our listeners, but I'm a huge fan of science museums.
0:51.2	And I remember that first iconic visit to a real science museum when we took a road trip to Washington, D.C.
0:57.4	to visit the set of Smithsonian museums. I aimlessly wandered around the natural history museums there for hours, right up until they had to kick me out at closing.
1:03.5	It was the first time, I think it was seven or eight, that I remember feeling incredibly small
1:08.9	because of all those giant fossils and displays and those
1:12.9	dioramas throughout the museums. I was just in awe. Do you remember your first trip to an amazing
1:19.4	science museum? I don't, actually. I do remember going to natural history museums in a kind of
1:25.0	vague sense and feeling like, like oh there's not quite understanding
1:29.4	how to navigate through them compared to say going to a zoo but my experience with sort of collections
1:35.4	like this is much more specific you know i remember for example going into a neuroanatomy lab and
1:42.1	seeing for the first time different fossilized parts of the brain and so
1:45.7	forth. And so I feel like the kind of relationship that I have with collections of museums is
1:50.9	very specific to a particular topic. Well, I'm going to convince you on this week's show that the
1:56.9	collection museum has a place in the larger landscape of science education and, oddly
2:05.0	enough, scientific research. Just in our backyard here in San Francisco, there's the California
2:10.1	Academy of Sciences. And just one day when I was there on one of my first visits, tucked away in
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