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Museology (MUSEUMS) with Ronnie Cline

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Museums! Mummies! Paintings! Hot dogs! Alie sits down with her dear internet friend and museologist Ronnie Cline, who manages 30,000 artifacts over 22 California State Park Museums. Get the hot gossip about behind-the-scenes museum life, vintage ghosts, following your dreams, changing the tone of history and the time Alie ruined a 16th Century Dutch portrait. Also: why Jack London is your new dead celebrity crush.

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0:00.0

Hey, hi, hi, it's your buddy Alliward.

0:04.0

So let's talk about Dusty Books and Stuffed Buffalo and Relics that would make Indiana Jones just randy.

0:13.0

So museums are those hollowed institutions that we use as marble-tiled storage lockers for history.

0:21.0

In this week's episode, I sat down with someone who gets to wear the gloves and just ignore the velvet rope things and stick around after the crowds filter out.

0:29.0

And keep watch for vintage ghosts.

0:32.0

Let's talk about museology, which is a word.

0:35.0

But first, I like to thank you listeners for making this podcast possible.

0:40.0

It wouldn't exist without you.

0:42.0

This is an entirely independent podcast made just the scrappy old-fashioned way by a couple of people in no networks and it supported only by listeners like yourself.

0:52.0

So thank you for the Patreon donations, which allow me to paint editor, Hi Steven.

0:57.0

And for buying merch at oligeesmarch.com, there are cool t-shirts and stuff up there.

1:03.0

Also, you rating and subscribing and reviewing helps so, so, so much because it keeps all the g's up in the charts for other people to discover and say, hey, cool podcast.

1:12.0

So consider it like voting. It's free and it helps keep good things happening.

1:17.0

Also, I'm a creep and I read every review because I'm thirsty and they make my day.

1:21.0

This week, the review I want to read is from someone calling himself Nick the Jagoff.

1:27.0

Don't need to know why.

1:29.0

Such a nice review essentially said that I'm a wild mix between a spirit animal, soulmate, crazy aunt, a devil on my shoulder and a teacher.

1:39.0

Can't get enough, loves the podcast, and then gave me two stars out of five.

1:44.0

I think that was an accident, Nick the Jagoff, because your review was so glowing and so nice.

1:50.0

But I saw that two out of five stars and was like, just a slip of the finger.

1:54.0

But I enjoyed your words and I enjoy all of your reviews. Thank you so much for leaving them.

1:59.0

Okay, back to museums. So museum, the word comes in a Greek for the muses.

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