Episodes
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode, host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Adam Aja, the Chief Curator at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East or HMANE. On March 15, 2024, HMANE will release a new augmented reality experience for its From Stone to Silicone exhibition. It will transport visitors from modern Cambridge to the ancient past to pay tribute to an Assyrian king at the Palace of Nineveh. It's called The Art of Intimidation: A Journey to Ancient Assyria. Adam and Jennifer discuss the app, its creation, and the adventure HMANE has planned for visitors.
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Introducing Caroline Fernald, HMSC’s New Executive Director
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday Feb 07, 2024
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week’s episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Caroline Fernald, HMSC's new Executive Director.
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
A Conversation with Elizabeth Solinga, HMSC’s New Administrative Director
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Wednesday Jan 10, 2024
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week’s episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Elizabeth Solinga, the new Administrative Director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture.
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week’s episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Adam Baldinger, the Curatorial Associate and Collections Manager of Invertebrate Zoology here at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Curating the Peabody Museum’s North American Collections with Curator Stephanie Mach
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week’s episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Stephanie Mach, the curator of North American Collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. She focuses on the museum's historical, modern, and contemporary Native American collections. Stephanie is also a member of the Navajo Nation and the first Native curator for the North American Collections.
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week’s episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Hannah Marcus, a professor in Harvard's History of Science Department, and the new Faculty Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week’s episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Aaron Gluck-Thaler, and Carolyn Bailey, PhD candidates in the History of Science and Visual Studies Departments at Harvard, and two of the guest curators for a new exhibition on surveillance at Harvard's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, which is slated to open on September 21.
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
The Journey Home: Repatriating the Gitxaała Totem Pole
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Wednesday Aug 30, 2023
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week’s episode host Jennifer Berglund speaks with Dustin Johnson, a member of and Cultural Program Manager for the Gitxaała Nation, and Kara Schneiderman, the Peabody's Director of Collections, about Peabody Museum’s repatriation process of returning meaningful objects to their origin communities.
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Growing Up in the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Wednesday Jul 26, 2023
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week’s episode host, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Shoyo Sato, an Invertebrate Biologist who just finished his Ph.D. at Harvard. Shoyo is an old friend to HMSC. He's been volunteering at the Museum of Natural History since he was 12. We wanted to talk to him about that experience, what it has been like to grow up in the museum, how he and the museum have changed, and what it's like to look back at the museum as he steps into a new era of his life.
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Making the Museum Accessible to Latino Teens through HMSC’s Hear Me Out Program
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Wednesday Jun 28, 2023
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week’s episode host, Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Abbie Sandoval-Focil, a bilingual museum educator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, as well as Mia Hortado, a teen student in HMSC's "Hear Me Out" program. The Hear Me out program was created to reach out to the Latino community across Massachusetts and engage them in the goings on at the HMSC museums.