Episode 7
Time to Wonder Podcast Episode 6: Show Notes
Date: May 19 , 2025
Episode 7 Are those mummies real?
In this episode we are missing Ava who was playing basketball (the activity she loves more than anything.) Lesley and Sue talk to Gayle Gibson, an Egyptologist who works with the Royal Ontario Museum teaching children about ancient Egypt. Gayle talks about how she became an Egyptologist. She tells us how and why the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead. Although Gayle wouldn’t say who her favourite mummy is, she tells a mysterious story about Nakht, a 16 year old weaver who was wrapped in his old clothes but then placed in a very nice coffin and buried where kings were buried even though his family was quite poor. She tells us what we can learn from studying mummies. Of course we ask about the mummified cats in the museum and Gayle explains that cats were not the only animals the Egyptians mummified.
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Episode 6
Time to Wonder Podcast Episode 6: Show Notes
Date: April 6 , 2025
Episode 5 Part 2 of “Were there museums before settlement in what we now call Canada?
In this episode, we ask Megan Jerry, a member of the Siksika (or Blackfoot) Nation in Alberta, Canada if there were museums before settlement in her area of Alberta.. She works at the Blackfoot Crossing Historic Park. We asked this same question of Coralee Miller, a member of the Syilx Nation in British Columbia, Canada in episode 1. But because First Nations across Canada and United States have their own cultural practises, we thought it would be a great idea to hear some different voices answering the same question. Megan talks about how belongings, but also designs and symbols used in painting teepees and beadwork were passed down through the generations. She also explains how many articles of clothing and weapons belonging to Chief Crowfoot ended up in a museum in England and how the Historic Park got them back.
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Episode 5
Time to Wonder Podcast Episode 6: Show Notes
Date: March 9 , 2025
Episode 5
In this episode, Ava, Lesley and Sue chat with Johnny and Darren who work at Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver Canada. This museum is located in the childhood home of Joy Kogawa, a famous Canadian writer of Japanese descent. Johnny and Darren tell us the history of the house and how it came to be a museum. We also learn a bit about the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II.
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Episode 4
Time to Wonder Podcast Episode 4: Show Notes
Date: December 16, 2024
Episode 4 “How do museums put together skeletons?”
In Part 1 of this episode we talk to two skeleton articulators, Mike deRoos and Michi Main. They talk about what their job is and how they got into articulating skeletons.
In Part two, we introduce the question, “Why are there museums in houses?”
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Episode 3
Time to Wonder Podcast Episode 3: Show Notes
Date: November 12, 2024
Episode 3 “What goes where and how did it get there?”
In Part 1 of this episode we talk to two fabrication designers, Josh Doherty works at the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver British Columbia. Stacey Winter works for the Royal BC Museum in Victoria BC. They talk about what their jobs are and how they got into them.
In Part two, we introduce the idea of skeleton articulation – that is putting the bones of skeletons together.
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Episode 2
Time to Wonder Podcast Episode 2: Show Notes
Date: September 15, 2024
Episode 2 “Is that Bear Real?
In this podcast Ava, Lesley and Sue talk to Solange Massicotte, Program Co-ordinator for the Kelowna Museums. The big question for this episode is, “Is that bear real?” Solange talks about the many animals visitors can see in the Kelowna Museum. She talks about how they got there and assures us that museums DO NOT kill animals. She tells us a little bit about taxidermy and why being able to see animals in a museum is such a great learning experience.
Episode 1
Time to Wonder Podcast Episode 1: Show Notes
Date: August 22, 2024
Episode 1 “Were there museums before settlement?
In this podcast our co-host Ava, a member of the Sqilxw Nation talks to Coralee Miller a docent at the Sncewips Heritage Museum. She asks the big question “Were there museums before settlement in what is now Canada?” Coralee also talks about why there are many First Nations museums today.
Coralee Miller, a member of the Sqilxw Nation books and leads museum tours, builds relationships with other museums, schools and businesses, assists her colleagues with their projects even plunges toilets if necessary. Coralee is also an accomplished visual artist.
Music Credits
“Hidden Agenda” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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“Teddy Bear Waltz” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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