Ernest Dollar: City of Raleigh Museum

It’s been said repeatedly that we are living in historic times but how can historic times help us navigate this one. For that, we turned to Ernest Dollar, Executive Director of the City of Raleigh and Pope House Museum so we can learn more about what history can tell us now and how it can help us move forward. 

In this episode, we cover…

• Ernest’s definition of a pivot (3:42)
• The role of history museums post-pandemic (8:00)
• “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” (13:06)
• Can the end of the 1918 pandemic inform us on how this one will end? (22:06)
• “History has taught me that ‘it too shall pass.” (24:27)

About Ernest: Ernest Dollar is a triangle native and has spent most of his work in the history museum field since his first director job in 2001 at the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough. He serves as the Executive Director of the City of Raleigh and Pope House Museum

Links

• Learn More about the City of Raleigh Museum 
• Learn more about the Pope House Museum 
• Article on Ernest Dollar from Walter Magazine

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Related Podcast Episode: Our conversation with Eric Dorfman, Director/CEO of NC Museum of Natural Sciences included a bit about where he sees the future of Natural History Museums. He even edited a book about it.