Michael Pahn

Michael Pahn is the Media Archivist, specializing in audio, video, and motion picture film, at the National Museum of the American Indian, a position he has held since 2003. Prior to that he worked at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage on the Save Our Sounds audio preservation project. Pahn has a BA in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and an MLS from the University of Maryland.

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Archivist Michael Pahn Free Associates Among the Smithsonian’s Music and Film Collections

On a search through the Smithsonian archives, Pahn follows one tradition after another to find that music is the connective thread that binds many cultures

Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham

Meet Michael Pahn: The Fiddle and The Violin are Identical Twins (that Separated at Birth)

Guest blogger and musician Michael Pahn prefers his fiddle to a violin, though they are the same instrument

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