Introducing Our New Podcast!

Listen to the trailer for our new podcast here! Search for Exhibitsmith on Apple Podcasts!

I am so excited to tell you about a little something I’ve been working on. Over the course of my career, I’ve experienced a lot of amazing, strange, and unbelievable things behind the scenes in museum collections storage facilities.

I’ve also had a lot of opportunities to learn about how we as a society deal with material culture (aka stuff). And I mean how we deal with all our stuff. Old stuff, new stuff, important stuff, irrelevant stuff. National treasures. Garbage. Stuff. With my background working with museum artifact collections and archives of all shapes and sizes, I have a lot of professional and personal thoughts about this that I’m eager to share with you.

And if I’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s that if a person has a lot to say, they should start a podcast.

Ha!

In any event, that’s what I’ve decided to do. Introducing Exhibitsmith, a podcast brought to you by me, Lindsey Smith. If you’re anything like me, you probably have a lot of stuff - and you might not know what to do with it. I love to help people interpret, preserve, and better understand what they have and what their options are to deal with it. This process can be very overwhelming, especially if you are downsizing, inheriting a houseful of items, or are just tired of the stress or the mess. Believe it or not, I truly believe that artifact and heirloom preservation can be both easy and fun. In fact, I’ve even developed a series of introductory-level workshops and courses that prove my point!

This is why collections assessments are my favorite part of collections consulting. To conduct a collections assessment, I visit a museum or organization’s collection, assess their collection’s current state, and understand their available resources. From there, I develop an easy-to-understand report and plan of action to help the staff go from being completely lost and overwhelmed to feeling confident that they will reach their goals. Their confidence is the best compliment they can give me. I’m looking forward to sharing many aspects of this process with you, too.

So, I invite you to sit back, relax, and listen to my professional thoughts, personal musings, and the exciting and sometimes ridiculous stories that I’ve encountered while in the trenches working with old stuff.