The Cody Firearms Museum as an Educational Institution Not a Celebration of Guns (Light Over Heat #60)

I just posted the third and final video for my “Light Over Heat” YouTube channel about my recent visit to the Cody Firearms Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming.

Curator Danny Michael (pictured in the video’s thumbnail) was good enough to give me a tour of the museum and I later went back and filmed some additional bits.

The first video covered how the museum’s recent renovations targeted those outside gun culture and the second video covered the 4,000+ gun artifacts in the museum.

In this third video, I discuss the Cody Firearms Museum as an educational institution rather than a celebration of guns and highlight specific exhibits that reflect this.

Please excuse the audio. I was filming while the museum was open to the public, so I was trying to speak quietly. To make matters worse, my lav mic was not getting along with my phone that day.

For those who don’t want to watch the video, I wrote more about this aspect of my visit on the Gun Culture 2.0 blog.

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Published by David Yamane

Sociologist at Wake Forest U, student of gun culture, tennis player, racket stringer (MRT), whisk(e)y drinker, bow-tie wearer, father, husband. Not necessarily in that order.

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