Welcome to our new podcast, a production of Columbia Libraries’ Podcast Club.

TRANSCRIPT:

This is Material Culture. 

A podcast from Columbia University Libraries.

The Columbia University Libraries are home to more than books. 

We have 16 different Libraries at this University.

And there is so much cool stuff here guys. 

Rare books, artworks, drawings, archives. 

Objects from all over the world.

We asked our librarians and curators to share some of these objects from our collections. And we asked them: 

Who made them? 

Who owned them? 

Why are they important? 

Why should we care about this? 

We learned that every object has a story. 

Stories that made us think about how the world has changed, and how it hasn’t. 

About how objects connect us to other places and times and the people who lived there and then. 

This is a podcast about these objects and the stories that they tell. 

Subscribe to Material Culture to hear every new episode or visit our website at bit.ly/materialculturepodcast. That’s B-I-T dot L-Y slash Material Culture Podcast.