100. The Archipelago Museum 🎉
Welcome to Museum Archipelago in Your Inbox, which does exactly what it says on the tin. Museum Archipelago, your audio guide to the rocky landscape of museums, is hosted by me, Ian Elsner.
In the early days of this podcast, every time I searched for Museum Archipelago on the internet, the top result would be a small museum in rural Finland called the Archipelago Museum.
As my podcast continued to grow and my search rankings improved, I didn’t forget about the Archipelago Museum. Instead, I wondered what they were up to. What were the exhibits about? Did they ever come across my podcast? Were they annoyed by my similar name?
And while the museum had a website and a map, there was no way to directly contact them. Years went by as the realization sank in—the only way to reach the museum was to physically show up at the museum. No planned appointment, no scheduled interview.
So, for this very special 100th episode, I went to Finland and and visited the Rönnäs Archipelago Museum.
Archipelago at the Movies🍿Veep Season 6 (2017)
After visiting her political rival's presidential library, former president Selina Meyer realizes she should build her own to cement her legacy. So Meyer and her team hire architects, illegally allocate funds, and choose a site at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts to host the museum.
Today, Smith alumni Rebecca Reibstein and I dive deep into the curious world of real and fake president libraries with Veep S6E02 and E6E10.