Like any kid who grew up in Rochester, NY, in the 90s, Kodak looms large in my mind. It felt like everyone’s parents worked there, and we were always taking field trips to the George Eastman Museum—the former home of George Eastman, Kodak founder. I still remember getting to play around with the camera demos, and even if my time there never translated into an ability to understand optics, that museum is still foundational to my love for science.
For this episode of Tiny Matters, we got to dive into a part of the Eastman Museum that I knew nothing about as a kid: the nitrocellulose vaults, which houses an incredible collection of old films that are no longer made that way because of their sheer flammability.
Listen to this episode if you…
- also have a childhood museum that you love thinking about
- want to hear experts who can speak to both the history of Kodak and the science of photography
- love hearing about the weird ways that museum collections get their pieces
