801 Museum Matters with Mary Beard; Fascinating Museums; Soul of South Korea
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
4.5 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Beloved English classics scholar Dame Mary Beard offers wisdom on how to tackle the vast collection of the British Museum, and ponders the ethics and responsibility of retaining the cultural antiquities of other lands. Then a cartoonist shares his love of museums and how they transform us by illustrating memorable moments at his favorites across North America. And a Korean American travel writer explains why Seoul is an ideal introduction to traveling in Asia, and recommends a relaxing island counterpoint to the bustling, 24-hour capital.
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| 0:00.0 | Big museums can feel overwhelming. |
| 0:04.0 | If you come away from your first trip to the British Museum and you've seen six objects, three famous, three not famous, I think you've come away ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Historian Mary Beard helps us approach the world's largest collection of antiquities in the heart of London. |
| 0:25.1 | Bob Eckstein likes to sketch what he observes at museums all across the USA. |
| 0:29.1 | He shares memories from the grandest to the quirkiest of collections. |
| 0:30.9 | The museums can be anything. |
| 0:34.7 | Museums don't have to be what we traditionally think of as paintings on the wall, |
| 0:36.6 | but it can be all sorts of things. |
| 0:38.6 | And to view something spectacular, |
| 0:42.8 | look for the free-form divers of Jeju Island when you visit South Korea. |
| 0:47.1 | It's also incredible to see women in their 70s, even 80s. |
| 0:48.9 | Some of them can't really walk, |
| 0:52.9 | and then all of a sudden they dive and they can move like mermaids. |
| 0:55.8 | It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:04.3 | Writer Chaney Kwok has tips for enjoying the heart of South Korea in both its hypermodern capital |
| 1:06.3 | and among the tranquil traditions on Jeju Island. |
| 1:09.8 | And Bob Eckstein shares what it is to love museums |
| 1:12.8 | by illustrating memorable moments at his favorites across North America. |
| 1:16.8 | They join us in a bit on today's travel with Rick Steves. |
| 1:20.5 | In the 19th century, the British Empire collected art and ancient artifacts |
| 1:24.5 | about as fast as they collected colonies. |
| 1:27.2 | Today at the British Museum, you can follow the rise and fall of the Egyptian, Greek, and |
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