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Museums and Collecting COVID-19

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Museums and Collecting COVID-19

Description (Dublin Core)

On June 4, 2020 the Curators Committee of the American Alliance of Museums presented a session focused on Collecting COVID. The session called attention to the importance of documenting significant history while living in a pandemic and discussed the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of collecting objects, ephemera and materiel in the time of crisis. The presenters (Stacey Swigart, Drexel Lenfest Center for Cultural Partnerships; Thomas Lonnberg and Tory Schendel Cox, Evansville Museum of Arts; Juilee Decker, Rochester Institute of Technology; and Redmond Barnett, Historian/Consultant) reviewed best practices, safety measures, look at museums who are collecting and how communities can/are involved and what communities can do to document your local/regional history. This item is a PDF of their entire presentation.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 4, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Redmond Barnett
Tory Schendel Cox
Juilee Decker
Tom Lonnberg
and Stacey Swigart

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Juilee Decker

Type (Dublin Core)

document

Publisher (Dublin Core)

American Alliance of Museums

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

Education--university
English Museums & Libraries
English Social Distance
English Technology
English Community & Community Organizations

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

collecting
archive
crisis
presentation

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/05/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/05/2020
08/18/2020

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Covid 19

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