Introduction

Speaker 1
One sunny spring day, not only that long ago, my wife, Kiki, and I got into our pickup truck and drove to Aveline, Kansas, where we toured the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Boyhood Home. My stated reason for going there as I interviewed the director of the Eisenhower Museum was this. I want to use the specificity of the Eisenhower Museum to talk about the museum experience for travelers. I would like my listeners to think more thoughtfully about how things are presented to them as travelers by museums and how they're curated for those experiences.
Speaker 2
Could you state your name just so I don't mispronounce it in the introduction? Sure, Don Hammett. I am a museum professional from the southeastern part of the United States. This position became available and I applied for it because the Presidential Libraries have always been like a premier museum system within the field and that's what really drew me here in the first place.
Speaker 1
Had this been a typical travel day, today's podcast episode might have been a standard Q&A discussion about the wonders of museums and how in the context of one of America's premier presidential museums, these kinds of institutions can deepen the experience of travel to new places. But since Aveline is not far from where I'm based when I'm not on the road, I was inspired to visit another north central Kansas museum on the way home from Aveline, a homegrown institution that is very much in the spirit of museums worldwide even as it doesn't seem to have much in common with the Eisenhower Museum. Here's the
Speaker 3
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