HMSC Connects! Podcast

Diving Deep for Oceans Week with Peter Girguis

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. To celebrate World Ocean week she is speaking Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, Peter Girguis.

Exploring the Power of Objects with Peabody Museum Steward Diana Zlatanovski

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, she is speaking with Diana Zlatanovski, a collection steward at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Diana works with a collection of 1.2 million objects from cultures around the world, specializing in materials collected from contemporary peoples outside North America.

Instruments of Technology & Science with Dave Unger

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, she speaking with Dave Unger, Director of Administration and Operations for the Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments, a museum containing a collection of instruments and tools of science collected by Harvard since 1672.

 

 

Archaeology of the Ancient World with Adam Aja

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, she is speaking with Adam Aja, Assistant Curator of Collections at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Among his many tasks at the museum, he manages a collection of roughly 40,000 objects.

Andrew Williston and the Museum’s Big Collection of Fishes

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, she is speaking with Andrew Williston, who manages the Museum of Comparative Zoology's Ichthyology collection, an assemblage of one and a half million specimens of preserved fishes.