Welcome to EMP Chatter, a podcast by Carl J. Aldrich, Tim Glenn, and Jennifer Ortiz focused on issues of interest to Museum Studies students and Emerging Museum Professionals. In this pilot episode, the hosts discuss Brian Switek's Aeon article, "Give Natural History Museums Back to the Grown Ups" (October 7, 2016). Also an interesting discussion about the value of graduate degrees in Museum Studies and Public History. Ending on a lighter note, some museum ghost stories.

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Relevant links

• Brian Switek

• Find a Museum Studies Program

• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Archivists Curators and Museum Workers

• Phoebe Chase

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 Tim Glenn is the Director of the John Wesley Powell River  History Museum in Green River.

 Carl Aldrich is a Ranger at Territorial Statehouse State Park  Museum in Fillmore.

  Jennifer Ortiz is the Museum Specialist at the Utah        Division of Arts and Museums.