"It's amazing like when I worked at the photographic archives as a student assistant going through photographs of like the 1950s of curators smoking and drinking or well mostly smoking over historic artifacts. Yeah, I wonder about that sometimes like how much damage was done to artifacts just from people smoking indoors totally," he says. "Now you can find out so much information You know things you didn't know back then."
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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Music by Nick Thorburn