Museums
topic on 4 shows · 10 statements across 5 episodes
American Optimist 
the Knowledge Project 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
the a16z Podcast
10 statements about Museums, every show
Bloom: Web3 curation can dismantle imperialist gatekeeping of historical artifacts
“Like we can sort of remap that in a lot of ways and like, you know, kind of tear down some of the walls of like you know, colonialism and imperialism that I think have largely informed where some of these works exist.”
Weiss: Universities are the nucleation point for institutional decay
“If you're wondering why the museums you love and the publishing houses you love and the newspapers used to trust and, you know, the Hollywood, all of these things, if you want to understand why they are hollowed out, why they are no longer what they used to be…”
Goslins: Physical museums' core strength is shared awe at artifacts
“The thing that museums do better than anything else is inspire awe at being in the presence of something spectacular and sharing that with the people around you.”
Goslins: Museums relied on three tools for 100 years
“Museums have been using the same two or three tools for the last hundred years.”
Goslins: Digital technology enables museums to meet visitor demand for personalization
“I do think one of the opportunities that technology can help us solve in the museum world is this Desire for personalization. That is something that technology that we don't particularly do well.”
Martin: Rapid software development in museums takes two to four months
“From two and four week, you know, cycles to two and four months. Even that was, you know, a huge leap forward.”
Lombard: Digital tech will be fully integrated into museum design in 20 years
“I think it'll be integrated. At that point, we won't be, you won't ask us to have a conversation about museums and digital. You'll just ask us to have a conversation about museum experiences. It'll just be completely, it'll be completely integrated.”
Goslins: Museums will have the same tech integration conversations in 20 years
“I think 20 years from now we'll be having the same conversation with different technologies. I do, you know. Museums, for many reasons, they're not leaders, they're laggers, and in some ways that's good because we really are so protective of our core experienc…”
Russell: Interactive VR is the future of education and museums
“And all I can think is this is the future of museums in the near term and the further term. This is the future of education. Like, why you know, why read a textbook about, you know, significant moments in history when you could just kind of actually get to liv…”
Berger: Museums trigger epiphanies by offering inspiration without cognitive overload
“Museums are the custodians of epiphanies. And so he, what he was saying is that, well, he meant that on two, in two ways. Number one, museums are full of things that were epiphanies for the people who created them. But at the same time, you have epiphanies in …”