In creating “The Memory Palace,” he aimed to replicate his own wonder at history in a way that is compelling and, above all, entertaining. Episodes of the podcast are short but rich in detail, and are delivered lyrically, with a soothing, occasionally emotionally tinged tone in Mr. DiMeo’s voice.

His process for finding Met stories has been similar to what he does with “The Memory Palace.” He waits for a fact or visual detail to jump out at him — something that “kind of stops time,” he said. “Those things are powerful.” Through research (and help from the Met’s curators) he tries to “revive” that moment of awe.

“I’m wondering if there’s a way to simulate that thing of being in the museum with someone who’s telling you a story,” he said. “There’s nothing like being with a friend when they say, ‘Hey you’ve got to see this piece of art.’”

The first episode of Mr. DiMeo’s residency is about the 19th-century painter Jules Tavernier that manages to draw the listener’s attention to a variety of artworks in a single gallery in the Met’s American Wing. With the visuals, it’s richer than both a typical episode of “The Memory Palace” and a straightforward audio guide.

There are, for example, humorous asides, like one about how a banker, Tiburcio Parrott, was able to talk his way into a sacred Pomo Indian ritual to impress a Rothschild who was visiting from Paris. Then Mr. DiMeo points the two men out in a Tavernier painting of more than 100 people; once hidden like Waldos, they are suddenly easy to see. (The story does stand on its own, however, and could be heard anywhere.)

Mr. DiMeo took a more experimental approach for his second episode for the Met. He tells listeners to stand in front of a vitrine filled with blown glass. But instead of spinning another yarn, he waxes romantic about the hours of so-called menial labor that went into everyday objects that, centuries later, are now treasures in one of the world’s pre-eminent museums.

“It’s a strange and beautiful thing,” he said. “And I wanted to find a way to articulate that.”

When the episode was posted, Mr. DiMeo said, a listener wrote to take issue with his approach to the Met’s collection. Mr. DiMeo was elated. “I’ve made art,” he said. “It’s open to interpretation.”