Why Do We Need Museums?
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2023
- Mr. Beat travels to the Stuhr Museum in Grand Island, Nebraska to get a behind-the-scenes look at how a history museum operates. While there, he learns about a troubling trend.
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A special thanks to Robb Nelson, our friend Cryssy who works here, and everyone else who works here at the Stuhr Museum for their help with this video. If you ever get a chance to visit this place, I highly recommend it. Or if you can't visit here, visit a museum in your hometown. Yep, your hometown probably has a museum that you didn't know about. Thanks for watching.
#museum #history #ushistory
What's your favorite museum?
Just for what’s in it, probably the British Museum in London. My favourite to visit was probably the Museum of Math in Manhattan
I think the Mob Museum in Las Vegas. Really cool.
It's a good one. I never even heard of the Museum of Math!@@osberswgaming
The holocaust museum in D.C. I’ve been there and it is pretty interesting.
Right on. Next time I'm in Vegas I shall check it out. @@Palasid11
It’s sad to see so many empty museums. I love going to museums and seeing so many amazing things.
1000%
At the same time, it's kind of nice sometimes to have the place to yourself. 😄
@@iammrbeat honestly, agreed, lol
There's over 100,000 of them, you can't expect all of them to be packed all the time, lol.
@@iammrbeat I know right XD
This video, like the majority of America’s museums, is criminally underrated. Thanks again Mr. Beat for shining a light on an important topic!
Man, there was a lot of passion oozing out of that one. One of your best, for sure. Now excuse me while I go to a museum…
Thanks buddy. It was so much fun to make!
I’m amazed by the age of a lot of the directors at this museum. They all see late 20s and early 30s with a real passion. As someone who’s 25 and working to reform a records department at a big law firm it’s awesome to see other people my age with passion towards their jobs and in leadership positions.
I was, too!
Yeah, usually it's primarily older folks.
records department? do lawyers listen to albums that much???
I wonder if its a Nebraska thing?
@@b.fingers3896 It’s a professional term for file storage. We open/close matters and store files for the 300+ attorneys. We have about 60,000 boxes offsite for storage just at one office. The firm is 90 years old and has decades of lazy file keeping. I was hired to help reform the department and am the youngest person in the department by 20 years that’s not an intern. It’s a very satisfying and rewarding job!
I hope this episode gets more viewership. There's so precious little appreciation of museums. I thought about making an entire series on museology, but knew that would destroy my channel, despite my proximity to it (by some metrics my father's aviation museum is most visited in the world b/c it's in McCarran Airport, plus all the rest of that influence). So much of this episode reminded me of my upbringing. I'm glad to see you tackle this and hopefully seeing the breadth of public history at some event that might happen in Salt Lake City next spring about that particular topic will inspire further episodes, regardless of their popularity. People are awfully excited to click on topics they're acquainted with through pop-media, but refuse to broaden their horizons. All we can do is keep pushing outward. Museology deserves more attention
If there was an youtube award named "youtube teacher of the year" i would vote for Mr. Beat
My parents are first generation Mexicans and never understood the appeal of museums, those days where schools would take us to them were some of the best memories I have of school to this day, will definitely give museums far more love when I’m self-sustaining as an adult. :)
As someone who has worked in museums, the Stuhr museum may fall under the "small museum" category, but they are, based on how many resources I saw, WAY better off than most true small museums. It looks amazing! I echo what was said about the need to fund museums. most are on (in some cases literal) shoe-string budgets.
Yeah I think it's a big museum with a small budget (more accurately)
I was surprised how many people they had. Most small museums couldn't afford a moat or to move houses.
I volunteer at my local railroad museum (Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City). There's nothing I love more than helping the old trains get fired up and see them running around the track. They're impressive sights when standing still. But you never get a full experience until you see them out in the sunshine, feel the heat radiating from their fireboxes, hear steam hissing and the whistle echoing across the hillside.
Well dang, now I have to visit where you volunteer!
Hey, I’ve visited that museum four years ago!
@@iammrbeatAbsolutely, if you're ever in the area, hit us up, ask for me, and I can guarantee a personal tour showing all the good stuff!
Summers are definitely the best time, especially 4th of July weekends.
My grandfather was an independent sheepshearer who ran a traveling crew. He sheared for Robert Taylor on occasion.
Holy crap, that's amazing. Thanks for sharing that!
Those empty museums are so sad. I just LOVE museums!
Ikr??
Im not gonna lie. I was scrolling through my recommended and read the video as “The Future of Muslims” and saw the bars on the right side and was like oh mr beat about to drop a crazy video.
I am much happier that its a video talking about museums and their future.
Edit: this video was so cool to see all the BTS into upkeeping a museum and it blew my mind how many people work at this one and the fact that a majority aren’t volunteers. I can only hope that funding continues so they can continue doing this amazing work!
lol well this video is underperforming, so maybe I SHOULD change the title to "The Future of Muslims"
I am so glad that Cryssy was able to get you out there. She was very excited to have you come and shine some light on our lovely little museum. I worked there for many years but due to the horrible economy I had to move on another job. I still LOVE this museum and wish all the best for it.
My family donated an old wagon my great great grandfather ordered and was delivered by train, he had 2 wagons, he used 1 to farm and never put together the 2nd one so it was in almost perfect condition. It was just left in our barn for 100 years until it was donated to a museum where it was made in Illinois.
It was so cool of them to do that!
In college, I took part in a thing called "The Big Event." The Big Event was a campus wide day of service. So every student who wanted to 3, 4, or 5 hours of community service got to. One year, I helped with cleaning/painting potions of a Head Start (Pre-K style facility). Another year I helped with doing chores at a museum like this. It was the Museum of Fur Trade. They had a few outdoor areas to replicas of homes.that were dug into mounds. And one of the main things we did was to move a bunch of branches and other natural debris left behind from yhe previous winter. Having 10 or so people coming and clearing it out for a few hours, I'd like to think may have saved the workers at the museum a week or two, so they could get other things done. I mean there are some things at a museum you do not need to be a historian to do, I am sure manual labor volunteers are also appreciated.
Good point...thanks for sharing all that!
My grandpa helps run a military museum in north Florida. It really is a lot harder than most people realize to keep the lights on for these places.
Great video! If you ever visit Poland, please consider visiting Łódź, which is kinda the overshadowed, underappreciated one among the major Polish cities. You can see a lot of cool museums here! Like the Museum of the Independence Traditions, with its two branches at Radogoszcz and the Radegast Station, the Cinema Museum, Central Museum of Textiles (it's more interesting than you probably think), the Museum of Art with its MS2 branch in the Manufaktura shopping center (in revitalised old factory buildings, it's really neat), and the nearby Museum of the City of Lodz itself. That's not even all of them.
Thanks for the kind words and suggestions!
@@iammrbeat Thank you and excuse me for shamelessly promoting a bunch of museums in my city! 😉 It's just that your video reminds me of the time (not so long ago) I spent working as an assistant in one of these institutions. It was the best and most fulfilling job I ever had. But, as you said in the video, museums everywhere tend to struggle financially, so I had to find another job.
While Poland is becoming more popular as a travel destination, people mostly visit Warsaw, Kraków and maybe Gdańsk. At the same time, Łódź has an opinion of being "Polish Detroit" and people are often specifically advised *not* to come here.
I'm going into museums as a career for collections management and I currently work at my university's museum on campus. I hope people keep supporting museums because they're really valuable for the field of history.
Well thank you for your service
@@iammrbeat Thanks Mr. Breast. Means a lot coming from a man with so much money.
I grew up in Hastings, Nebraska, not far from Grand Island. I still remember Stuhr Museum very well, and that was over 20 years ago. I live in Connecticut now because of my job, but I still love museums wherever I go. I am surprised that museums are suffering because I always loved them and thought they were more popular. I even went to museums in Japan, and I have others on my bucket list in Europe. Stuhr Museum was the one of the first I had seen as a kid. I always liked your videos, but this one was a delightful surprise bringing back childhood memories. Thank you for your promotion of museums and historical sites.
Bro, did he just change the title and thumbnail to make a Mr Beast joke? LMAO
Great video. Thanks for sharing the story of a fascinating museum. An amazing collection highlighting the history of the area. Loved your interviews with the dedicated staff. I currently volunteer at a science museum near my home. I enjoy that as much as anything I have done in life. The dedication of the staff at the Stuhr Museum and the museum where I volunteer are crucial to their success.
Well, great comment. I appreciate the kind words and I appreciate you volunteering at your local museum.
Mr beat continues to help me appreciate things I never gave a 2nd thought to
I grew up there! As a child i ran around playing games, started volunteering at a young age and began working there as my first job each summer, all dressed in 1890's apparel. It's amazing to see how fast it's come in just my few years, comparatively to how long it's been open. Thank you for visiting there and sharing it's work doing with museums nation wide and world wide.
I love museums! No matter the topic! I just like looking at pretty and important things.
The world needs more folks like you
This was a cool educational video/vlog. It really brings the struggles of museums to the surface as well as communicating their history and why they are needed.
Glad you dug it!
Dude... when I saw this video in my feed, I was like "Wtf??? I'm not subscribed to Mr. Beast!!" I never went to hit unsubscribed so fast in my life... then I re-read it... you got me there.
I’ve been trying to go to more museums as I’ve gotten older. I’ve learned to really appreciate history and how the more I learn about it the more i feel like humans have never really changed
Edward Durrell stone did a few buildings on my university’s campus. His style is iconic (but the quality of buildings during that time led to some issues renovating them later on down the road to be more accessible and safe) the Campus decided to keep one, but level another.
This was so cool because I recently took a class on museums for college and now I get to see how my college compares to mr beat’s lesson
Seeing mr beast in a mr beat thumbnail confused me so much
This is a great video on a very important topic. Museums preserve our history and culture. They are very important for us, so it is sad to see so many of them empty and struggling. More people need to go to museums. The Stuhr Museum seems like a great museum, and pretty big too. I will definitely visit if I find myself in Nebraska. I always love visiting museums wherever I go, whether they are huge repositories of history or small hidden gems. More people need to support museums, especially the smaller and lesser-known ones. There may be quite a few museums near where you live that you may never have known about. Also, more people should volunteer in museums if they have the time. In the smaller aviation museum that I volunteered at, most of the people there were in their 70s or older. It is great to hear wonderful stories from them, but the younger generations need to keep their stories and museums alive.
I like how you're leaning into this Mr. Beast/Beat joke.
Just got home from 12 hours of hard work and that thumbnail actually tricked me 😂
Mr. Beat, I'd like to extend an invitation for you and the fam to come see the Great Lakes Shipping History Museum and the Seaman Minerological Museum both in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, at opposite ends of the peninsula. Wait til spring though, less snow that way.
Thanks Matt! 🤓Great video pointing out the importance of museums! I managed to go to the Scholte House Museum and the Pella Historical Village & Vermeer Windmill the day before I moved from Pella, Iowa. So glad I did!
Thank you so much. Glad you got to check all that out before your move. :)
Thank you so much for making a video on this subject! Museums--and libraries--are so important, and it infuriates me just as much as it does you that they are going neglected as the years go by. Especially smaller museums like these. Knowing our past informs us about how to build our future; we can learn what to avoid, and what to carry forward. And we can gain perspective about how we got to be where we're at today, in the present.
Fund the museums, people. And thank you, thank you, thank you, Mr. Beat!
I grew up south of Omaha and my grandparents took me to the Stuhr Museum (and Pioneer Village in Minden) many times. My last visit was in August 2017 for the total solar eclipse.
Hilarious preview pic Mr Beat, tell them the whole way in.... THE BEAT GOES ON
Absolutely wonderful video. Thanks for creating this. I worked at the Houston Museum of Natural Science from 2015-2018 and there's something intangibly magical about walking those carpeted dark hallways filled with interesting items, historical and scientific.
I love small museums. If it wasn’t for a small museum in North Carolina I wouldn’t know anything about my direct family history! Keep small museums going forever!
Those empty museums make me sad, I always love going to museums and learning about different subjects.
They made me sad, too
HE DID THE THING
MR BEAT DID THE THING
he did
My favorite is The Works, a combination art, history, and childrens museum in Newark, Ohio. When my youngest child was a 2nd grader I got a membership pass and we visited at leasrt twice per month. Now they are a sophomore at Marietta College majoring in history, minor in art with a career goal of museum curation.
It sounds amazing
Museum is a important aspect to learning! Reading about things in a book is good and all that, but seeing for real artifacts really give you the best learning! Scale and amount matters in history!
This is why when I take road trips, I stay off the main highway and visit as many museums as I can. There is always something of interest to see and learn about.
What a topic this is. Fascinating and interesting.
I'm so glad you think so!
Great video, Beat!
I believe every community deserves to have a museum.
Even Pitcairn Island has its own museum.
Population: 35.
And as one of the folks in the video mentioned, it often comes down to letting people know you exist.
Aloha 😊🤙🏼👏🏼
Free museum days are a great way to visit local museums
Thanks for this video Mr. Beat. I work at a small non-profit museum and know personally the struggle to keep things going.
Thank YOU for your service.
I love museums! So much history all in one place. Going to the Field Museum was always so much fun as a kid.
We have to appreciate what has been even if it’s a good glimpse of aesthetics ❤️ I respect museums
Thank you for bringing these issues of low visitation and archival management (especially faced by small, local history museums) to attention! I worked at a smaller but similar historic village museum in New Mexico this summer and experienced this firsthand (shoutout to the Aztec Museum & PIoneer Village!) Please visit your local museums!
I have long been curious about the Stuhr and it looks like a great place with some passionate people behind it!
About to head to Washington (first time to America) and my family is looking forward to the Smithsonian and the other museums there.
Oh wow...have a blast! You're gonna love it.
I thought that's what it looked like in the thumbnail! How cool! Sounds like I need to make a trip in the near future
I’m a teacher in California, and I think one of the big things that keep me from even planning field trips is the lack of transportation provided by the school districts. Since the 60s (when my parents were in school) districts have been axing bus service. When I went to school in Nevada, we had bus service. So we could get a bus from the district. It might have been a pain for our teachers or led to limited time at location, but we could try. I on the other hand, can’t even bother since I have a limited budget that I control and I couldn’t even cover transportation with the budget I have for my class. At another school, teachers can plan trips because they can walk to a BART station. Which isn’t the same as a school bus, but it gives them options that I don’t have.
I love how this started out as a video with a normal thumbnail and title and then slowly devolved lol
It was severely underperforming and I couldn't help myself 😄
I visited a museum that has preserved a huge ship that sank in the 17th century. During the 20th century, they managed to raise the ship again and it is now preserved in a museum.
That's awesome
I'm very fortunate to live in a place with numerous museums (and some old money like Carnegie, Frick, and Heinz). At one time, I volunteered as a docent at the H. John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center. I was thinking of going to the Frick (Pittsburgh) Museum sometime, so you've inspired me to go as I've somehow never been there before. Last week, I was at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, which I highly recommend. Another one (and much smaller) that I enjoyed five years ago was the Chudnow Museum of Yesteryear in Milwaukee.
Definitely one of your most important videos. Excellent
My hometown. Been to that museum many times.
I'm sure you have fond memories there!
There's a local art museum in Greensburg, PA. I've been there a couple times to look around. They even have dedicated galleries that are there for a certain period of time.
Awesome
Nebraska raised here, went to this museum for a school field trip and with my family at least once as well. Definitely a fun one! Shame museums are only really for me and my dad tho 😂😂
I'll always have a soft spot for science museums and the Smithsonian but since I moved to the southwest some of the small plucky ones have become my favorites. The museum and historical tours of Jerome, AZ along with the Gold King mine museum are very charming. Another fascinating . . . museum? would be the House on the Rock in Wisconsin; just the story behind how and why it exists and what it contains is simply fascinating.
There's other oddities like Big Brutus and the Strataca salt mine in Kansas were genuinely pleasant surprises.
My parents have been to House on the Rock and loved it. Speaking of my parents, my Mom used to work at Strataca salt mine in the 1980s!
I am a truck driver. When I have to take my 34 hour break I like to go to a local museum in the city I just so happen to be in.
You should go to the Harold Edgerton museum, only 20 miles away in Aurora. He invented high-speed strobe photography.
How come no closed captions?
Hard of hearing in our house.
❤ the content, especially this one. Gives me an even greater appreciation for museums!
You past the test! That was gold my man was SWEATING he came prepared.
It makes me so sad whenever I go to various museums on my travels and I'm like one of the only people in the building.
It's honestly why I was inspired to make this video.
I've been to a lot of big name museums. I'd really like to start finding the small ones around me to visit now
DO IT
My favorite museum is the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. I have been there many, many times and each time I find something new. Rotating exhibitions also keep it fresh. Also helps as a NY resident I pay what I wish.
My wife and I have been to our share of poorly attended museums, usually its because they have short opening hours, are small or are very niche. Many are just not advertised well and dont have funding, quite sad.
I always like your low-fi hip hop beats to study and chill to that you have as background music.
Mr.Beast changed all his thumbnails to having his mouth closed because he discovered that it gives him more views (for appearing slightly less clickbait-y)
The coolest Living History museum was "This is the Place," in Salt Lake City. It is set circa 1869.
I really liked this video Mr. Beat! My home town has a museum I've been to several times (though I haven't recently) with an exhibit about a tornado that came through in 1936, making it the 4th deadliest tornado in US history. A little over 30 years before that a tornado also struck the town and that is the 17th deadliest tornado in history. So we're in two places out of the top 20! I also considered asking them if they hire, because I'm a history student and would love to voulenteer in a place like that, but I also need money and don't have much spare time.
I'm hoping to work in a museum someday. The job hunt has been rough but it's nice to see people around my age working in the environment
Mr Beat! I just finished your Supreme Court book! I really enjoyed it
Thanks for getting it!
Great video! I have a similar living history museum near me that is also underappreciated on a national scale, the Black Country History Living Museum in the UK. The museum covers the industrial era of the region and has been used as a filming location, notably for Peaky Blinders
Mr. Breast gets sentenced life in prison, for being a great UA-camr. Rest in Peace!
Museums are great. I'd love to visit this museum myself.
People who saw the old thumbnail
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Beautiful video. I hope it ends up in a museum.
very cool if i'm ever in nebraska i'll be sure to stop in.
Also check out the May Museum in Fremont (50 miles North of Lincoln on Highway 77). I volunteered there for YEARS when I was growing up, & those volunteer hours contributed to the requirements for me to earn the Girl Scout Gold Award!
@@augiegirl1 congrats on your award
Please do!
@@iammrbeat i will seriously add it to my retirement cross usa road trip list, although currently at 41 will be very hopeful its still in good hands when im hopefully able to retire
The clickbait thumbnail got me. I thought this was a video discussing Mr. Beast going to jail lol
Solid thumbnail
I find that while exhibit museums are on the decline lately, living history museums are still thriving. I visited the USS Constellation in Baltimore at 2:00 PM on a Tuesday and it was still packed. Living history exhibits are exciting, as they have an experience to offer as well as information. I think museums just need a rebranding honestly.
Beautiful video :)
Thank you
My two favorite museums are the Titanic Artifact Museum and Orange County History Museum (both in Orlando). They’re both empty most of the time and it’s pretty unsettling (especially for Titanic). Fascinating stuff to learn, it’s just kinda depressing that not enough people get to see it.
When you mentioned the "emptiness," I immediately thought of my experience at the Tom Mix Museum in Vinita, Oklahoma.
Strong recommend.
I’m an aviation nerd so I’m sort of biased but the 2 greatest museums I’ve been too are probably the Udvar Hazy Center in DC and the Smithsonian air and space museum also in DC. The most incredible thing in the first museum mentioned was the space shuttle discovery and Enola Gay (the b-29 that dropped the nuke over Hiroshima). But the most incredible thing in any museum on earth in my opinion is at the Smithsonian. They have a REAL refurbished model of the original wright flyer. Having the literal first ever powered plane on earth in a museum is incredible. The only thing changed was the fabric on the wing as the original fabric was extremely beat up and yellow. They have a piece of the original fabric on display next to the plane however.
The royal palace seen briefly at 3:56 is the Neue Burg at the Hofburg in Vienna. In the 1980s I visited the collection of musical instruments there. The main door you see in the center, through which I walked, has a balcony area above. Years after my visit I was surprised to learn that Hitler spoke to a huge crowd from that balcony in 1938. On my visit I was completely ignorant of his speech and that I was walking directly underneath where he stood: no signs or guide books told the story. Was this an attempt to forget an unpleasant part of history? I find it fascinating.
When i was a kid i went to museums my parents love history. My brother and i always respected the museum's. I am sad they are not doing well. We need to learn and listen to our history.
Now more than ever
Love this! Museums, particularly ones like the Stuhr, as so key. Folks should also check out the Association of African American Museums. They do amazing work and open to everyone. Please consider becoming a member of your local museums. Exhibits and programs come and out regularly and you will get first access to it all.
Mr. Beat’s jail challenge!!!!
I love how Mr beat is using his name for clickbait lmao
I hate clickbait so I’m kissing him bye bye
I'd love for you to check out The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Mi. Also has an adjoining old town called Greenfield Village. That is, if you haven't been there already. Seems right up your alley
I have heard of it and hope to visit one day
Start by looking it up online. You will see the car Kennedy was in when he was shot. The chair Abraham Lincoln was in when he was shot. And the bus Rosa Parks was in, thankfully she wasn't shot
Really interesting, thank you
I have visited Stuhr twice, but not recently, I should remedy that. It is probably quite different from my last visit.
Loved seeing you on destiny's stream :) I like the way your brain works, its so cool. I really liked this one rinky dink museum I went to over the summer that was emulating life in the late 1800's in Colorado, hell yeah.
Great video!