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Collected Item: “#MuseumUpClose”

Give your story a title.

#MuseumUpClose

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Social media post from the Science Museum of Minnesota

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Facebook post from the Science Museum of Minnesota, highlighting a small piece of an object in the collection and asking users to guess what the object was. Museums have used several different hashtags and social media approaches to get people to engage with their collections digitally.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Saint Paul, Minnesota, science, museum,

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200624123659/https://www.facebook.com/sciencemuseum/photos/a.121614838291/10157976427068292/?type=3&theater=

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Science Museum of Minnesota

Give this story a date.

2020-06-22
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